Abstract
Stress echocardiography has not yet been accepted and employed as an established diagnostic tool in spite of the sound scientific foundations and the editorial overexposition. The spread of the technique remains at the point of balance between opposing forces — excitatory and inhibitory (Table 1).
The Red Queen to Alice:“Here, you see, you have torun with all your might to stay in the same place. to go somewhere else, you have to run at least twice as fast”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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Picano, E. (1992). Stress Echocardiography in the Clinical Arena: Child of a Lesser God. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13061-2_12
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