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Serious and potentially life threatening complications of cardiac stress testing: Physiological mechanisms and management strategies

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Dr. Fadi G. Hage has grant support from Astellas pharmaceutical company, and Dr. Ronald G. Schwartz serves as a consultant and is on the speakers bureau of Astellas pharmaceutical company. Other authors have reported nothing to disclose in relation to this topic and review.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Vasken Dilsizian MD

  2. Department of Medicine (Cardiology Division), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Henry Gewirtz MD

  3. Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Nicholas Paivanas MD

  4. Department of Cardiology, Sismanoglio Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Anastasia N. Kitsiou MD, PhD

  5. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Fadi G. Hage MD

  6. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Nathan E. Crone MD

  7. Departments of Medicine (Division of Cardiology) and Imaging Sciences (Nuclear Medicine), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Ronald G. Schwartz MD, MS

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Dilsizian, V., Gewirtz, H., Paivanas, N. et al. Serious and potentially life threatening complications of cardiac stress testing: Physiological mechanisms and management strategies. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 22, 1198–1213 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-015-0141-4

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