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European Heart Journal 2008 29(3):288-289; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm639
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Stress echocardiography. What is normal in old people?

Harald Becher*

John Radcliffe Hospital, Cardiac Investigation Annexe, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 1865 220 325, Fax: +44 1865 222 077. Email: Harald.Becher@orh.nhs.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Real-time dobutamine stress myocardial perfusion echocardiography predicts outcome in the elderly’ by J.M. Tsutsui et al., on page 377

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When we deal with the results of a diagnostic test such as stress echocardiography, we tend to be more interested in the abnormal results. However, in non-invasive imaging of coronary disease, calling a study falsely normal often causes more problems than a false-positive diagnosis, which can be corrected by consecutive tests. It is good clinical practice to finish cardiac assessment in those patients who have normal tests.1 However, how . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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