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Transthoracic Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation
Published on: October 20, 2016
Stress echocardiography--2010
Satyanarayana Upadhyayula1, Kanwal Kishore Kapur
1Department of Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India. u2satya@rediffmail.com
Abstract:
Owing to the level of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy, stress echocardiography (SE) perhaps has the highest overall utility and is the most preferred and prescribed modality for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD). Additionally exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) and pharmacologic stress echocardiography (PSE) turn out to be the most cost-effective & risk-effective modality, without significant environmental/radiation/bio hazard, with the added advantage of repeatability, portability, an acceptable learning curve and high level of safety. Strain (E), Strain Rate Imaging (SRI), tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE), real time 3-dimensional echocardiography (RT-3DE), Speckle tracking Echocardiography (STE), combined MCE & RT-3DE, combined STE & TDI add newer dimensions and may unleash the full potential of SE.
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