To the Editor: Harper and Ko stress the importance of differentiating the presence of atherosclerosis from ischaemia,1 a concept that has been well understood for years. We agree that identifying myocardial ischaemia is important in the management of atherosclerosis; there are a variety of well validated non-invasive tools for this, including exercise electrocardiography, stress echocardiography, and nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI).
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- 1 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
- 2 The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.
- 3 St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
- 4 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA.
- 5 Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
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