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Comparison of Exercise Stress Testing with Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Exercise Technetium-99m Isonitrile Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Abdurrahman OGUZHAN, MD, Halil LUtfi KISACIK,MD, Kurtulus OZDEMIR,MD, Bulent Behlul ALTUNKESER, MD, Tahir DURMAZ, MD, Erkan ALTINYAY, 1MD, Tevfik KURAL,MD, Sule KORKMAZ, MD, Metin KIR,1MD, Emine KUTUK, MD, and Siber GOKSEL,MD SUMMARY To compare the value of exercise electrocardiography with dobutamine stress echocardiography and exercise technetium-99m isonitrile single-photon emission computed tomography for coronary artery disease, 70 patients with either suspected or proven coronary artery disease underwent dobutamine stress echocardiography, exercise technetium-99m isonitrile single-photon emission computed tomography (mibi-SPECT) and treadmill exercise electrocardiography (ECG). Dobutamine echocardiography and exercise mibiSPECT revealed a higher overall sensitivitiy than exercise testing (90 vs 57%, p