akinesia becoming dyskinesia after exercise testing: prevalence and relationship to clinical outcome
Graham S. Hillis, MBChB, PhD*,
Jae K. Oh, MD, FACC*,
Douglas W. Mahoney, MS*,
Robert B. McCully, MBChB, FACC* and
Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, FACC*,*
* Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Figure 1 Distribution of segments that were akinetic at rest and became dyskinetic after exercise. Number refers to the total number of segments in this distribution exhibiting this response (total = 165).
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Figure 2 Major adverse cardiac event (cardiac death and non-fatal acute myocardial infarction) rate in patients with akinetic myocardium at rest who did and did not develop dyskinesia with exercise echocardiography (p = 0.12).
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Figure 3 All-cause mortality in patients with akinetic myocardium at rest who did and did not develop dyskinesia with exercise echocardiography (p = 0.27).
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