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State-of-the-art modern echocardiography, including stress, three-dimensional, deformation, and contrast imaging, remains an invaluable tool for detailed evaluation of cardiac structure and function.
Echocardiography remains a foundational and evolving tool in multimodality cardiovascular imaging, particularly with advances in 3D and deformation imaging.
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Endorses routine use of advanced echocardiography for cardiac assessment; leaves open optimal integration with other modalities.
Echocardiography remains the most frequently performed cardiac imaging investigation and is an invaluable tool for detailed and accurate evaluation of cardiac structure and function. Echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and cardiovascular-computed tomography comprise the subspeciality of cardiovascular imaging, and these techniques are often used together for a multimodality, comprehensive assessment of a number of cardiac diseases. This paper provides the general cardiologist and physician with an overview of state-of-the-art modern echocardiography, summarising established indications as well as highlighting advances in stress echocardiography, three-dimensional echocardiography, deformation imaging, and contrast echocardiography. Strengths and limitations of echocardiography are discussed as well as the growing role of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in the guidance of structural heart interventions in the cardiac catheter laboratory.
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Benoy N. Shah (2013) conducted a review in Cardiac diseases. Echocardiography was evaluated. State-of-the-art modern echocardiography, including stress, three-dimensional, deformation, and contrast imaging, remains an invaluable tool for detailed evaluation of cardiac structure and function.
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