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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Absolute contraindications to exercise testing A recent significant change in the resting ECG suggesting ischemia, recent infarction (within two days) or other acute cardiac event Unstable angina Uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia causing symptoms or hemodynamic compromise Uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure Symptomatic severe aortic stenosis Suspected or known dissecting aneurysm Acute myocarditis or pericarditis Acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction Acute systemic infections, accompanied by fever, body ache, or swollen lymph glands Modified from: Gibbons RJ, Balady GJ, Bricker JT, et al. ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for exercise testing: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1997 Exercise Testing Guidelines). Circulation 2002; 106:1883.