Exercise Radionuclide Ventriculographic Responses in Hypertensive Patients with Chest Pain

Abstract
The effectiveness of exercise-treadmill testing in diagnosing coronary-artery disease in hypertensive patients is limited by a high rate of false positivity. Exercise radionuclide ventriculography, however, relies on different criteria (ejection fraction and wall motion), and we have evaluated this procedure in 37 hypertensive and 109 normotensive patients with chest pain, using coronary adenography as an indicator of coronary disease.