Τίτλος:
Stress ECHO beyond coronary artery disease. Is it the holy grail of cardiovascular imaging?
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Stress echocardiography (SE) is a very useful method in clinical practice, because it offers important information of both the patient's functional status and hemodynamic changes during stress. Therefore, SE provides strong diagnostic and prognostic data in a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases. This review summarizes the clinical applications of SE in conditions beyond coronary artery disease (CAD) and highlights practical recommendations and key issues for each condition that need further investigation. SE is an established method for the evaluation of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) and cardiomyopathies, and provides important information regarding prognosis and management of patients with congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension or diastolic dysfunction. Moreover, when one or multiple VHD and cardiomyopathy or CAD coexist in one patient, SE is a very useful clinical tool for the evaluation of etiology and symptomatology. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Συγγραφείς:
Aggeli, C.
Polytarchou, K.
Varvarousis, D.
Kastellanos, S.
Tousoulis, D.
Περιοδικό:
Clinical Cardiology
Εκδότης:
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
dobutamine; vasodilator agent, aortic regurgitation; aortic stenosis; athlete; cardiovascular magnetic resonance; cardiovascular parameters; congenital heart disease; coronary artery disease; diastolic dysfunction; heart failure; heart transplantation; human; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; mitral valve regurgitation; mitral valve stenosis; pharmacologic stress testing; prognosis; prosthesis patient mismatch; prosthetic valve dysfunction; prosthetic valve stenosis; pulmonary hypertension; Review; stress echocardiography; valvular heart disease; coronary artery disease; hemodynamics; pathophysiology; physiology; procedures; reproducibility; stress echocardiography, Coronary Artery Disease; Echocardiography, Stress; Hemodynamics; Humans; Reproducibility of Results
