Transthoracic echocardiography has become a major imaging tool for the diagnosis and management of canine and feline cardiovascular diseases. During the last decade, more recent advances in ultrasound technology with the introduction of newer imaging modalities, such as tissue Doppler imaging, strain and strain rate imaging, and 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography, have provided new...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of the heart failure. Timely diagnosis and optimal management decrease morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients. Although transthoracic echocardiography is used as the diagnostic test of choice in these patients, new modalities like speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have promising results in diagnosing these patients in the earli...

Echocardiography is the most common diagnostic tool to screen for Fabry cardiomyopathy as it fast, non-invasive, low-cost, widely available, easily applicable and reproducible. first-line investigation, being useful in all stages of disease: (1) gene-positive patients, unveil signs early cardiac involvement allowing timely treatment; (2) patients with overt estimate severity involvement, possib...

BACKGROUND Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction is a well-recognized condition and confers worse outcomes in septic patients. Echocardiographic assessment by conventional parameters such as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is often affected by ongoing changes in preload and afterload conditions. Novel echocardiographic technologies such as speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have ...

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...

Figure 1. Recording an equine ECG with a smartphone. Speckle tracking is the most promising of the various advances in equine echocardiography, but, as technology continues to improve, three-dimensional echocardiography is already showing potential in horses. Novel ECG techniques Cardiology in the horse is focused on diagnosis and prognosis – and, as such, advances in the field tend to be drive...

Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have recently applied as imaging techniques to accurately evaluate left atrial (LA) size, anatomy and function. 3DE and off-line quantification softwares, have allowed, in comparison to magnetic resonance imaging, the most time-efficient and accurate method of LA volume quantification. STE provides a non-Dopple...