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Anatomical and Functional Targets of Stress Testing

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The principle of stress under controlled conditions derives from the Industrial Revolution: metallic materials undergo endurance tests to identify the breaking load. This approach identifies structural defects, which – although occult in the resting or static state – might show up under real-life loading conditions, leading to a dysfunction of the industrial product. In the same way, a patient with normal findings at rest undergoes a stress test to identify any potential vulnerability of the myocardium to ischemia, if there is clinical suspicion of ischemic heart disease.

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  2. Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

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