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Past, Present and Future of Stress Echocardiography - How Far Have We Come and How Far Can We Go?
Author(s):
Nithima Chaowalit
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Patricia A Pellikka
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
W Kevin Tsai
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Kathleen M Holohan
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Kim Allan Williams
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3 years ago
Coronary artery disease (CAD) represents a tremendous financial and health burden as the leading cause of death in the US.1 Acute coronary syndrome and its subsequent manifestations, including heart failure and need for cardiac transplantation, are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hypertension, dyslipidemia, tobacco abuse, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and family history…
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Author(s):
Petros Nihoyannopoulos
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3 years ago
The investigation of chest pain involves more than determining coronary anatomy. Discussions about whether non-invasive imaging might replace coronary angiography for the display of coronary anatomy must not detract from the fact that clinical assessment and dynamic functional imaging by echocardiography or nuclear imaging are at least equally important. Often, the need for imaging coronary…
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Author(s):
Konstantinos Bratis
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3 years ago
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute, profound, but reversible heart failure syndrome, usually but not always triggered by physical or emotional stress. To date, the exact pathogenic mechanism of this syndrome remains unclear; however, several hypotheses involving vascular mechanisms (i.e. abnormal coronary epicardial or microvascular vasoreactivity),1-3 endocrine and gender-related mechanisms (i…
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Author(s):
Joanne D Schuijf
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Jeroen J Bax
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Ernst E van der Wall
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3 years ago
Diabetes is an important risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) as reflected by the four-fold greater incidence of CAD in diabetic patients compared with the general population.1 Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality in the type 2 diabetic population and, once diagnosed with CAD, patients with diabetes have a considerably poorer prognosis than their non-diabetic…
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Author(s):
Lindsay A Smith
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Amit Bhan
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Mark J Monaghan
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3 years ago
The field of non-coronary cardiac intervention is undergoing rapid expansion, driven by advances in technology and increasing demand for alternative, non-surgical therapies for common structural heart diseases. As a result, the volume, variety and complexity of percutaneous catheter-based procedures being performed in cardiac catheterisation laboratories are increasing. Traditionally, fluoroscopy…
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Author(s):
Gaetano Antonio Lanza
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3 years ago
Up to 50% of patients who undergo elective coronary angiography for stable chest pain symptoms that are mainly related to exercise and typical enough to suggest the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) are found to have normal or near-normal coronary arteries.1 The mechanisms responsible for angina chest pain in these patients are heterogeneous; accordingly, their identification…
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Author(s):
Annemien E van den Bosch
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Boudewijn J Krenning
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Jos RTC Roelandt
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3 years ago
Introduction
The heart is a dynamic organ and places special demands on three-dimensional (3-D) techniques. To understand its physiology and pathophysiology, not only the spatial distribution of its structures is important but also their movement during the cardiac cycles. Previous approaches to 3-D echocardiography (3-DE) were offline and based on sequential rotational scanning and acquisition…
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Author(s):
Annemien E van den Bosch
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Boudewijn J Krenning
,
Jos RTC Roelandt
Added:
3 years ago
Introduction
The heart is a dynamic organ and places special demands on three-dimensional (3-D) techniques. To understand its physiology and pathophysiology, not only the spatial distribution of its structures is important but also their movement during the cardiac cycles. Previous approaches to 3-D echocardiography (3-DE) were offline and based on sequential rotational scanning and acquisition…
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Author(s):
Jean-Pierre Laissy
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Jérôme Garot
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3 years ago
Recent developments in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging have led to a tremendous breakthrough in functional imaging and tissue characterisation of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium. Over the past few decades, numerous studies have shown significant improvement in CMR imaging of acute myocardial ischaemia and myocardial infarction (MI). Advances in hardware, acquisition sequences and…
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