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Current Indications for Contrast Echocardiography
Author(s): Harald Becher , Robert Olszewski Added: 3 years ago
Contrast echocardiography has become an indispensable tool in non-invasive imaging. In the last decade new contrast agents and contrast-specific imaging technologies have simplified the clinical use of contrast agents and dramatically improved the images acquired. However, there is a price to pay: extra time, the costs of the agent and a small risk of intolerance reactions. Significant… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Benoy Nalin Shah , Roxy Senior Added: 3 years ago
Myocardial revascularisation can improve or relieve angina pectoris in symptomatic patients and also improve prognosis in patients with severe left main stem disease, severe proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary disease or multi-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD).1–2 However, it is also widely accepted that the visual estimation of stenosis severity at the time of cardiac… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
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Roxy Senior is Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Echocardiography at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London and Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. He is a clinician with a major interest in echocardiography. He has been involved with echocardiography for the last 25 years and has published… View more
Author(s): Fausto J Pinto Added: 3 years ago
Echocardiography is the most widely used non-invasive imaging method in cardiology worldwide. Several reasons justify its success, the most important being its ability to answer easily and repeatedly the pertinent clinical questions posed every day by clinicians about their patients. In addition, it has accommodated itself to the continuous technological and scientific developments of the last… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: MD, FACC, FASE
Sharon L Mulvagh is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo College of Medicine and a Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. She is a clinical cardiologist active at international, national, local, and institutional levels in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging, specifically echocardiographic imaging using newer technologies including contrast… View more
Author(s): Roxy Senior Added: 3 years ago
Introduction In the UK there is still an emphasis on coronary anatomy as currently assessed using coronary angiography; however, high-grade coronary lesion may not cause myocardial ischaemia, for example in the presence of extensive collateral vessels. Dynamic imaging to show the physiological effect of any coronary stenosis is therefore an important part of the investigation of patients with… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): John G Coghlan , Denis Pellerin Added: 3 years ago
Goals in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) arises from pathological thickening, obstruction and constriction of the pulmonary arterioles.1 This leads to progressive elevation of pulmonary pressures initially on exertion, then at rest.2 Symptoms present late, often only when the pressures can rise little further and the cardiac output (CO) falls due… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Roxy Senior Added: 3 years ago
Introduction In the UK there is still an emphasis on coronary anatomy as currently assessed using coronary angiography; however, high-grade coronary lesion may not cause myocardial ischaemia, for example in the presence of extensive collateral vessels. Dynamic imaging to show the physiological effect of any coronary stenosis is therefore an important part of the investigation of patients with… View more

Heart Failure

MI/ACS
Author(s): John G Coghlan , Denis Pellerin Added: 3 years ago
Goals in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) arises from pathological thickening, obstruction and constriction of the pulmonary arterioles.1 This leads to progressive elevation of pulmonary pressures initially on exertion, then at rest.2 Symptoms present late, often only when the pressures can rise little further and the cardiac output (CO) falls due… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Mai Tone Lønnebakken , Eva Gerdts Added: 3 years ago
Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a diagnostic challenge, even though there are several diagnostic techniques available for the detection of ischaemia – assessed either as function or perfusion abnormalities or directly by demonstrating anatomical coronary stenoses.1 An overview of different non-invasive modalities used in the diagnosis of myocardial ischaemia and their average sensitivity… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions