Stress Echocardiography

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Stress Echocardiography: A Historical Perspective (or, How I Ate My Father)....Pages 1-15
Anatomical and Functional Targets of Stress Testing....Pages 17-26
Symptoms and Signs of Myocardial Ischemia....Pages 27-36
Rational Basis of Stress Echocardiography....Pages 37-44
Echocardiographic Signs of Ischemia....Pages 45-55
Segmentation of the Left Ventricle....Pages 57-65
Right Ventricular Ischemia in Stress Echocardiography....Pages 67-73
Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Stress....Pages 75-90
Stress Echocardiography: Instructions for Use....Pages 91-101
Exercise Echocardiography....Pages 103-114
Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography....Pages 115-132
Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography....Pages 133-153
Adenosine Stress Echocardiography....Pages 155-164
Pacing Stress Echocardiography....Pages 165-171
Ergonovine Stress Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Vasospastic Angina....Pages 173-181
Hyperventilation Test....Pages 183-187
Grading of Ischemic Response....Pages 189-198
Diagnostic Results and Indications....Pages 199-211
Echocardiographic Recognition of Myocardial Viability....Pages 213-229
Diagnostic Flowcharts....Pages 231-238
Prognosis....Pages 239-251
Tissue Harmonic Imaging, Anatomical M-Mode, and Three-Dimensional Imaging in Stress Echocardiography....Pages 253-261
New Technologies in Stress Echocardiography: Tissue Doppler and Strain Rate Imaging....Pages 263-273
New Technologies in Stress Testing: Acoustic Quantification and Color Kinesis....Pages 275-290
Tissue Characterization....Pages 291-298
Transesophageal Echocardiography for Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 299-309
Myocardial Contrast Stress Echocardiography....Pages 311-328
Special Subsets of Angiographically Defined Patients: Normal Coronary Arteries, Single-Vessel Disease, Left Main Coronary Artery Disease, Major Noncardiac Vascular Surgery, Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization....Pages 329-337
Special Subsets of Electrocardiographically Defined Patients: Left Bundle Branch Block, Right Bundle Branch Block, Atrial Fibrillation....Pages 339-344
Special Subsets of Clinically Defined Patients: Elderly, Women, Outpatients, Diabetics, Chest Pain Unit Patients....Pages 345-353
Microvascular Disease: Syndrome X, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Arterial Hypertension....Pages 355-368
Stress Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy....Pages 369-376
Stress Echocardiography After Cardiac Transplantation....Pages 377-385
Stress Doppler Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease....Pages 387-401
Stress Echocardiography Versus Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 403-418
Stress Echocardiography and Nuclear Imaging....Pages 419-436
Coronary Flow Reserve....Pages 437-453
Endothelial Function in the Stress Echocardiography Laboratory....Pages 455-467
Ulysses’ Syndrome....Pages 469-475
Back Matter....Pages 477-480