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Many tests have been proposed in combination with echocardiography: only a few have a role in clinical practice. The most widely employed tests for the induction of coronary vasospasm are ergonovine and hyperventilation. For the diagnosis of organic coronary artery disease, the most popular stresses are dipyridamole, adenosine, and dobutamine. Among nonpharmacologic tests, dynamic exercise is obviously the most important. An exercise-independent, nonpharmacologic stress is transvenous or transesophageal pacing. Finally, the combined dipyridamole exercise stress allows the diagnosis of ischemia in patients with milder, yet hemodynamically significant, forms of coronary disease.
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Picano, E. (1992). Stress Echocardiography: Instructions for Use. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13061-2_7
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