For the study, Park and colleagues randomized 1,706 patients (mean age 64.7 years; 80% male) with high-risk anatomical or clinical characteristics treated with PCI to undergo routine functional ...

Despite the routine use of cardiac stress testing as an initial diagnostic tool for the detection of severe coronary disease, 4 previous studies have shown that functional testing is widely used ...

New randomized trial results suggest routine functional testing provided no advantage on clinical outcomes over standard care among high-risk patients after intervention, suggesting 'less is more.' ...

Source Reference: Park D-W, et al "Routine functional testing or standard care in high-risk patients after PCI" N Engl J Med 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2208335. Secondary Source.

A routine of functional muscle tests that was adequate for testing children with signs of mild poliomyelitis is presented. The examination was carried out at the conclusion of the acute, illness.

Research underscores importance of both genetic and functional testing in diagnosing mitochondrial disorders, particularly for cases with low-heteroplasmy deletions that otherwise could go ...