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Stress Echocardiography
This is the seventh edition of a long-selling book (first edition 1991) that was translated into Italian, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish,...
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Practice guidance for stress echocardiography
Stress echocardiography has been one of the most promising methods for the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and...
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Exercise Stress Echocardiography in Kawasaki Disease Patients with Coronary Aneurysms
The most significant sequelae of Kawasaki disease (KD) are coronary artery aneurysms, which can lead to risk of future myocardial ischemia. Exercise...
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Role of myocardial strain imaging in diagnosing inducible myocardial ischemia with treadmill contrast-enhanced stress echocardiography
IntroductionThe aim of this study is to analyze the diagnostic value of global longitudinal strain (GLS) in detecting inducible myocardial ischemia...
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The Role of Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease
Purpose of ReviewStress echocardiography is recommended in valvular heart disease when there is a mismatch between resting transthoracic...
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The roles of exercise stress echocardiography for the evaluation of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the heart failure pandemic era
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for nearly 70% of all HF and has become the dominant form of HF. The increased...
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Contrast echocardiography: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography
Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) have a well-established role in clinical cardiology. Contrast echocardiography has evolved into a routine technique...
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Real world hospital costs following stress echocardiography in the UK: a costing study from the EVAREST/BSE-NSTEP multi-centre study
BackgroundStress echocardiography is widely used to detect coronary artery disease, but little evidence on downstream hospital costs in real-world...
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Pulmonary congestion during Exercise stress Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
BackgroundB-lines detected by lung ultrasound (LUS) during exercise stress echocardiography (ESE), indicating pulmonary congestion, have not been...
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Current awareness and use of transthoracic echocardiography in evaluation of valvular heart disease in Kumamoto Prefecture -a report from the Kumamoto cardiovascular echocardiography standardization project
BackgroundThere are few reports on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for the evaluation of valvular heart disease in a specific area or region.
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Coronary microvascular dysfunction affects left ventricular global longitudinal strain response to dipyridamole stress echocardiography: a pilot study
The aim is to investigate, by means of speckle tracking echocardiography, left ventricular (LV) contractile function at rest and during dipyridamole...
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The evaluation of coronary microvascular obstruction in patients with STEMI by cardiac magnetic resonance T2-STIR image and layer-specific analysis of 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography combined with low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography
This study was designed to assess coronary microvascular obstruction (MVO) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)...
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Myocardial motion in acute ischemia: revealing invisible deformation by echocardiography
Echocardiography has been used clinically to assess regional myocardial wall motion for the diagnosis of acute myocardial ischemia or stress-induced...
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Surveillance of adenosine stress myocardial contrast echocardiography following percutaneous coronary intervention
BackgroundThe ability of adenosine stress myocardial contrast echocardiography (AS-MCE) to reveal decreased coronary blood flow or perfusion defects...
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Contrast Echocardiography in Heart Failure: Update 2023
Purpose of ReviewThe application of ultrasound-enhancing agents (contrast agents) has improved the accuracy and reproducibility of echocardiography....
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Broadening Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence in Echocardiography
Echocardiography frequently serves as the first-line treatment of diagnostic imaging for several pathological entities in cardiology. Artificial...
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Evaluation of left ventricular function in ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries: a research based on adenosine stress myocardial contrast echocardiography
Patients with ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) have an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events in the future, which is...
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Contrast Echocardiography for Assessing Myocardial Perfusion
Purpose of ReviewImprovements in ultrasound methods for detecting microbubble ultrasound enhancing agents have led to an increase in the use of...
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Development of artificial intelligence-based slow-motion echocardiography and clinical usefulness for evaluating regional wall motion abnormalities
The diagnostic accuracy of exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) for myocardial ischemia requires improvement, given that it currently depends on...
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Echocardiography
Purpose of ReviewEchocardiography is an integral component in the diagnosis and management of heart disease. This review focuses on the applications...
