Stress Echocardiography - Picano, Eugenio (papel)

Autor: Picano, Eugenio

Editorial: SPRINGER VERLAG

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ISBN13: 9783319209579

Reseña: This sixth edition is enriched by over 300 figures 150 tables and a video-companion collecting more than 100 cases also presented in the format of short movies and teaching cartoons. This extensively revised and enlarged edition of this long-seller documents the very significant advances made since the fifth (2009) edition and is entirely written by Eugenio Picano a pioneer in the field sharing his lifetime experience with the help of an international panel of 50 contributors from 22 countries representing some of the best available knowledge and expertise in their respective field. In a societal and economic climate of increasing pressure for appropriate justified and optimized imaging stress echocardiography offers the great advantages of being radiation-free relatively low cost and with a staggering versatility: we can get more (information) with less (cost and risk). For a long time the scope and application of stress echo remained focused on coronary artery disease. In the last ten years it has exploded in its breadth and variety of applications. From a black-and-white one-fits-all approach (wall motion by 2D-echo in the patient with known or suspected coronary artery disease) now we have moved on to a omnivorous next-generation laboratory employing a variety of technologies (from M-Mode to 2D and pulsed continuous color and tissue Doppler to lung ultrasound and real time 3D echo 2D speckle tracking and myocardial contrast echo) on patients covering the entire spectrum of severity (from elite athletes to patients with end-stage heart failure) and ages (from children with congenital heart disease to the elderly with low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis).