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Evaluation of patients with diabetes mellitus for coronary artery disease using dobutamine stress echocardiography

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1997

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T Hennessy, Mary Codd, Garvin Kane, Conor McCarthy, Hugh A. McCann, D. Sugrue

Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

The specificity of DSE for CAD in patients with diabetes mellitus is low. Whether this reflects an underdetection of small vessel disease by contrast coronary angiography or whether it relates to test performance is unclear.