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Stress echocardiography with contrast and deformation imaging guides CAD diagnosis, risk stratification, and viability assessment.
Echocardiography, particularly stress echocardiography with modern enhancements, plays a pivotal role in diagnosing and managing coronary artery disease without ionizing radiation.
Echocardiography has a central role for the diagnosis and management of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Besides the fact that it provides an essential role in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with chest pain in the emergency department, echocardiography provides a comprehensive non-invasive haemodynamic and functional assessment of those patients. Stress echocardiography in many institutions is now the preferred stress modality associated with imaging as it is cost-effective and does not use ionizing radiation. It is used for assessing patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, risk stratification and for assessing myocardial viability. The recent introductions of ultrasound contrast agents as well as deformation imaging techniques have eliminated the last limitations of stress echocardiography such as image quality and quantification, respectively.
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Nihoyannopoulos et al. (2011) conducted a review in Coronary artery disease. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography, particularly stress echocardiography with contrast and deformation imaging, plays a central role in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and viability assessment of coronary artery disease.
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