Introduction Stress echocardiography (SE) is a well-established non-invasive technique that is most often used in the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD). A recent survey by Bhattacharyya et al . highlights important themes that
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Stress echocardiography in coronary artery disease: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography
Richard P Steeds, Richard Wheeler, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Joseph Reiken, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Roxy Senior, Mark J Monaghan, and Vishal Sharma
Rest global longitudinal 2D strain to detect coronary artery disease in patients undergoing stress echocardiography: a comparison with wall-motion and coronary flow reserve responses
Nicola Gaibazzi, Filippo Pigazzani, Claudio Reverberi, and Thomas R Porter
Introduction Noninvasive identification of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a clinical challenge despite the widespread use, and possible overuse, of imaging and provocative testing; more than 50% of patients currently
Feasibility of physiologist-led stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease
Jamal N Khan, Timothy Griffiths, Tamseel Fatima, Leah Michael, Andreea Mihai, Zeeshan Mustafa, Kully Sandhu, Robert Butler, Simon Duckett, and Grant Heatlie
no published data on PLSEs. We sought to assess the feasibility, safety and robustness of PLSE for exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography in the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) in real-life practice, and compare these measures
Correlation between global longitudinal peak systolic strain and coronary artery disease severity as assessed by the angiographically derived SYNTAX score
Apostolos Vrettos, David Dawson, Chrysanthos Grigoratos, and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
Introduction Percutaneous coronary intervention with TAXUS and cardiac surgery known as SYNTAX score (SS) is an angiographic tool used to determine the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients undergoing coronary angiography. Two
The dilemma of ischemia testing with different methods
Maria Pia Donataccio, Claudio Reverberi, and Nicola Gaibazzi
Background The combination of myocardial perfusion (MP) imaging and dipyridamole or dobutamine real-time contrast echocardiography improves the sensitivity to detect coronary artery disease (CAD), particularly multivessel CAD. Patients with diffused
Non-ischaemic cardiac conditions: role of stress echocardiography
Adrian Chenzbraun
Introduction Introduced in the 1970s (1) , stress echocardiography (SE) is presently a main diagnostic functional test for individuals with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) (2) , (3) . It is defined as the conjoint use of 2D
Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography: experience from a tertiary cardiac centre
Theodoros Ntoskas, Farhanda Ahmad, and Paul Woodmansey
ventricle systolic dysfunction; M, male; MDT, multidisciplinary team; NSTEMI, non-ST elevation myocardial infarction; RCA, right coronary artery; VD, coronary vessel disease. The clear majority (231) of the patients who had a negative DSE for
Does stress echocardiography still have a role in the rapid access chest pain clinic post NICE CG95?
Victoria Pettemerides, Thomas Turner, Conor Steele, and Anita Macnab
recommended by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) as the initial investigation for patients presenting with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and an intermediate pre-test probability (PTP). As a result, functional imaging modalities
Acute myocarditis with normal wall motion detected with 2D speckle tracking echocardiography
Thomas Sturmberger, Johannes Niel, Josef Aichinger, and Christian Ebner
clinical presentation, ECG changes, elevated cardiac enzymes, and lack of coronary artery disease. Focal myocarditis can mimic acute coronary syndromes, and therefore, invasive coronary angiography is frequently performed in this clinical setting. The
An uncommon manifestation of shock: Takotsubo syndrome
Ying X Gue, Sanjay S Bhandari, and Mubarak Ahamed
-LAD disease (arrow). Figure 5 Left ventriculogram showing basal/mid-cavity ballooning. Treatment and outcome No coronary intervention was required for the patient. Based on the echo and LV gram finding, she was initiated on heart
