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Electrocardiographic stress testing is one of the most important non-invasive cardiac investigations mainly to diagnose ischemic heart disease. Although Bousfield was the first to detect ECG changes during stress in 1918 [1], Master and Jaffe [2] introduced this idea as a diagnostic tool in 1941. Since then this technique has been in increasing use, with modifications, in order to increase its value for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Information on myocardial performance is of value in evaluating the prognosis of a disease process, especially in coronary artery disease. Recent emphasis has been to the study of myocardial function during exercise. Several attempts have theefore been made using different non-invasive methods [3, 4] but these were either expensive to run and involved complicated technologies, difficult to repeat or impossible to pursue during exercise [5].
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Salmasi, AM. (1986). Exercise Doppler cardiography. In: Spencer, M.P. (eds) Cardiac Doppler Diagnosis, Volume II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4241-7_7
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