In some cases, this may be followed by a stress echocardiogram, or “stress test,” to determine how the heart responds to ...

The most common type of echo is transthoracic echocardiography ... For example, if you are doing a treadmill stress test, you may need to refrain from taking any medications that bring down ...

And cardiac MRI "shows us more than echocardiography or an exercise stress test," Steiner adds. "Those tests have benefits, but MRI shows more in terms of the heart's shape, size, volume ...