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Novel techniques in stress echocardiography, such as contrast, strain imaging, and 3-dimensional echocardiography, offer various advantages and disadvantages for assessing cardiac disease.
This review summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of novel stress echocardiography techniques, including contrast, strain, 3D, and Doppler imaging, for assessing cardiac disease.
May guide technique selection in stress echocardiography; leaves open need for prospective outcome trials.
Stress echocardiography (SE) is an established tool not only for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), but also for the evaluation of valvular disease and cardiomyopathy. New techniques, namely contrast echocardiography for function and perfusion including assessment of coronary flow reserve, strain imaging, 3-dimensional echocardiography, Doppler-derived coronary flow reserve and multimodality echocardiography, have been incorporated into stress protocols for improving assessment of cardiac disease. In this review, the advantages and disadvantages of these novel SE techniques are examined in terms of feasibility, accuracy, reproducibility and applications.
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Vamvakidou et al. (2015) conducted a review in Cardiac disease (coronary artery disease, valvular disease, cardiomyopathy). Novel techniques in stress echocardiography was evaluated. Novel techniques in stress echocardiography, such as contrast, strain imaging, and 3-dimensional echocardiography, offer various advantages and disadvantages for assessing cardiac disease.
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