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Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems","Cardiovascular & Hematology Research
To assess the relative diagnostic accuracy of dipyridamole and exercise str
ess echocardiography, we performed a meta-analysis of peer-reviewed literat
ure of published trials with "head-to-head" comparison on the same populati
on of patients, who received high doses of dipyridamole (0.84 mg/kg over 10
minutes) versus exercise stress echocardiography. Dipyridamole and exercis
e stress echocardiography have similar diagnostic accuracy, with exercise s
tress echocardiography showing slightly superior sensitivity and dipyridamo
le echocardiography slightly superior specificity.