Prognostic value of pharmacologic stress echocardiography in patients with left bundle branch block11Access the “Journal Club” discussion of this paper at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajmselect/

PURPOSE: Although coronary artery disease is a frequent cause of left bundle branch block, the prognostic value of myocardial ischemia in patients with this conduction abnormality has not been defined. We investigated the value of pharmacologic stress echocardiography in risk stratification of patients with left bundle branch block.