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Introduction Echocardiography is the most important and most commonly used noninvasive imaging modality in patients with coronary artery disease. However, suspected stenoses of the coronary arteries are routinely detected owing to ischemia

cardiac enzymes (troponin and creatinine kinase) ( 4 ). Echocardiography allows general morphological and functional assessment of the heart and can be used to assess myocardial contraction, ejection fraction and to exclude other valvular lesions; however

Introduction The expanding responsibilities and skillset of the Highly Specialised Cardiac Echocardiography Physiologist include performance and analysis of exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography studies ( 1 , 2 ). Physiologist

better to apply such a scoring system intraoperatively to inform adequacy of surgery at a time when the surgeon can immediately revise the repair. We report our initial experience of introducing the TPS during intraoperative echocardiography at a

recommending measuring (and reporting) the LVEF as accurately as possible. The American Society of Echocardiography and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging have also remained consistent in their definition of severe LVEF as <30% in their 2015

patients with a cardiac Ps will display symptoms of heart failure, dyspnea or chest pain; however, 10% of such patients can be asymptomatic ( 2 ). Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE) is a suitable initial method for diagnosing Ps of the

Introduction The visualisation of specific parts of coronary artery branches with 2D echocardiography is generally possible, but not very common in the clinical scenario. The left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) is located in the anterior

patient was referred to our hospital for coronary angiography. Investigation In our institution, a comprehensive transthoracic echo­cardiography was performed, showing normal regional wall motion with preserved left ventricle ejection fraction

with compatible findings on a resting echocardiogram (2) . Patients with systolic dysfunction respond to a range of physical and medical therapies, but nonetheless have a poor prognosis (3) . Resting echocardiography and particularly left ventricular

Introduction Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) has become a complementary echocardiographic modality in the management of patients with congenital heart disease. 3DE is used frequently in children, but also its role in the long