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Prognostic Value of Stress Echocardiography

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Stress Echocardiography

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 149))

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Abstract

Previous chapters have concentrated upon the ability of stress echocardiography to predict the presence of significant coronary artery disease. This approach permits the comparison of this test and various other non-invasive methodologies, using angiographic stenosis as the reference standard. However, this standard may be difficult to accurately define [1], and may not correlate with functional indices of coronary flow [2]. Consequently, the clinical value of identifying moderate (but “significant”) coronary stenoses may reasonably be questioned.

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Marwick, T. (1994). Prognostic Value of Stress Echocardiography. In: Stress Echocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 149. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0782-2_9

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