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Figure 1 Protocols of Interpretation of Rest, Intermediate Stages, and Peak Exercise and the Process of Blinding the Intermediate Stages
Still images (and Online Videos) in the 2-chamber view at end-systole from a patient who was interpreted as having right coronary artery ischemia with bicycle exercise echocardiography without intermediate-stage images and as having, in addition, left anterior descending coronary artery ischemia with bicycle exercise echocardiography with intermediate stage. Note the smallest left ventricular end-systolic volume at 50 W (stage II) and the left ventricular dilatation at peak. This and the anterior ischemia are not as obvious if rest (R) and peak (P) images were only displayed.
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