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Rational Basis of Stress Echocardiography

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Stress echocardiography stems from three lines of evidence placed at three different levels: biochemical, pathophysiologic, and clinical.

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Eugenio Montale

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  1. Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Via Paolo Savi, 8, I-56100, Pisa, Italy

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Picano, E. (1994). Rational Basis of Stress Echocardiography. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02979-4_4

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