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Diagnostic Results and Indications

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Stress Echocardiography

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The relationship between the data obtained from provocative tests and angiographically assessed coronary artery disease is usually expressed in terms of sensitivity and specificity, where sensitivity is the frequency of a positive test result in a population of patients with coronary artery disease and specificity is the frequency of a negative test result in a population of patients without disease. In a given population, the values of sensitivity and specificity are affected by a constellation of factors (some of which — more relevant to stress echocardiography — are summarized in Tables 1 and 2) related to the angiographic standard, patient population, stress methodology, and criteria of interpretation. In the presence of more severe and extensive coronary artery disease, any stress echocardiography test will give higher sensitivity values.

No test is so good that you cannot make it look bad; no test is so bad that you cannot make it look good

Marco Antonio Torres [1]

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  1. Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Eugenio Picano MD, PhD, FESC (Senior Medical Researcher of Italian National Research Council, Director, Echocardiography and Stress Testing Lab Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Scientific Director Cardiology, Clinica Cardiologica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Avellino, Editor-in-Chief Biomed Central Netjournal Cardiovascular Ultrasound)

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Picano, E. (2003). Diagnostic Results and Indications. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05096-5_18

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