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1.83) in predicting post-operative outcomes.[ 13 ] In terms of cost effective analysis, Kertai et al .[ 14 ] demonstrated a positive trend for dobutamine stress echo (DSE) to have better diagnostic performance than ambulatory ECG, exercise ECG, radionuclide ventriculography, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and dipyridamole stress echo, in their meta-analysis of 8119 vascular patients.

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