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Coronary heart disease echocardiography or ultrasound

For patients with symptoms that suggest low risk of coronary artery disease, stress echocardiography may be the best test[1].

References

  1. Siontis GC, Mavridis D, Greenwood JP, Coles B, Nikolakopoulou A, Jüni P; et al. (2018). “Outcomes of non-invasive diagnostic modalities for the detection of coronary artery disease: network meta-analysis of diagnostic randomised controlled trials”. BMJ. 360: k504. doi:10.1136/bmj.k504. PMC 5820645. PMID 29467161.

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