- This sixth edition of a widely-praised and successful book discusses in detail all aspects of stress echocardiography
- Explains both mainstream and emerging applications and provides systematic comparisons with competing and complementary cardiac imaging techniques
- Written by the distinguished pioneer, Eugenio Picano and other contributors selected for their expertise
- The extra-material in video companion collects more than 100 stress echo cases, 5 short movies, 20 teaching animations and 11 selected slide presentations
- All video and text material has been collected with the help of 50 coauthors from 22 countries
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- About this book
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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).
- Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Stress Echocardiography: A Historical Perspective
Pages 3-18
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Anatomical and Functional Targets of Stress Testing
Pages 19-36
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Symptoms and Signs of Myocardial Ischemia
Pages 37-51
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Rational Basis of Stress Echocardiography
Pages 53-68
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Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Stress
Pages 69-86
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Stress Echocardiography
- Authors
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- Eugenio Picano
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-20958-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-20958-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-20957-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-30756-5
- Edition Number
- 6
- Number of Pages
- LXXXVII, 696
- Number of Illustrations
- 161 b/w illustrations, 206 illustrations in colour
- Topics