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J Am Coll Cardiol, 1999; 34:441-447
© 1999 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Comparison of stress/rest myocardial perfusion tomography, dipyridamole and dobutamine stress echocardiography for the detection of coronary disease in hypertensive patients with chest pain and positive exercise test

Gabriele Fragasso, MDa, Chunzeng Lu, MDa, Pawel Dabrowski, MDa, Paolo Pagnotta, MDa, Imad Sheiban, MDa and Sergio L. Chierchia, MD, FESC, FACCa

a Divisione di Cardiologia, Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy



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Figure 1 Histogram showing sensitivity (SENS), specificity (SPEC), accuracy (ACC), negative (NPV) and positive (PPV) predictive value of dipyridamole (Dip), dobutamine (DOB) stress echocardiography, and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MIBI), for the detection of CAD, in hypertensive patients with chest pain and positive exercise test. Open bars: MIBI; solid bars: Dip; striped bars: DOB.

 




 
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