Are intraventricular gradients a cause of false positive treadmill exercise tests?
Background: Treadmill exercise testing has low specificity for the detection of significant epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD). A possible mechanism to explain some of the false positives is transient subendocardial ischemia induced by intraventricular gradients (IVG) during stress. The develo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0870255112001084 |