Abstract
During the last decades the socalled ‘direct’ and ‘imaging’ diagnostic methods, such as coronary angiography, echo/color Doppler, scintigraphy, computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, have contributed to improve diagnostic accuracy in cardiac diseases considerably. For several reasons ‘the ECG’ has not been trusted in view of these newer methods, but has remained the most used non-invasive diagnostic method worldwide. Why should this be?
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Gertsch, M. (2004). Introduction and Concept of the Book. In: The ECG. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10315-9_1
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