Is there an alternative to traditional stress tests?
Transesophageal cardiac pacing is a highly informative, simple, safe and widely available selective stress test. Results of this test does not depend on concomitant pathology and physical fitness of a patient. Therefore it presents an alternative to standard stress tests and is a method of choice in many diagnostic situations.
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