Advances in Echocardiography

Recent Advances in 2D Echocardiography and Live 3D Echo

Echocardiography is the most common diagnostic tool for patients with heart disease, providing detailed information about cardiovascular morphology and hemodynamics previously available only by angiography and catheterization. It is noninvasive, widely available and inexpensive. With its huge evidence base, echocardiography has a central position in modern cardiac diagnosis and management. Rece...

Recent advances in echocardiography for valvular heart disease

Echocardiography is the imaging modality of choice for the assessment of patients with valvular heart disease. Echocardiographic advancements may have particular impact on the assessment and management of patients with valvular heart disease. This review will summarize the current literature on advancements, such as three-dimensional echocardiography, strain imaging, intracardiac echocardiograp...

Recent advances in echocardiography: strain and strain rate imaging

Deformation imaging by echocardiography is a well-established research tool which has been gaining interest from clinical cardiologists since the introduction of speckle tracking. Post-processing of echo images to analyze deformation has become readily available at the fingertips of the user. New parameters such as global longitudinal strain have been shown to provide added diagnostic value, an...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Echocardiography

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