ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
- Cardiac imaging techniques: which, when, and why
The science behind the different cardiac imaging techniques, and how to choose the best test for each patient.
- Current status of stress echocardiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
Electrocardiography with exercise or pharmacologic stress is gaining clinical acceptance, but its accuracy depends on the expertise of the people who perform it.
- Stress echocardiography: its emerging role in identifying viable myocardium
In patients with chronic ischemia or left ventricular systolic dysfunction, this test can indicate whether the damaged myocardium is still viable and, therefore, whether revascularization would be beneficial.
- Doppler echocardiographic assessment of aortic regurgitation: uses and limitations
The final determination of the severity of aortic regurgitation should involve a combination of the various Doppler techniques and the indices derived from them.
- Doppler echocardiographic assessment of constrictive pericarditis, cardiac amyloidosis, and cardiac tamponade
Doppler echocardiography is emerging as an excellent noninvasive way to assess diastolic function, and its array of clinical applications is expanding.
- The value of echocardiography in mitral valve repair
In patients who require surgery for mitral regurgitation, valve repair may offer numerous advantages over valve replacement.