Stress Echocardiography

This handbook describes a new technique for the diagnostic imaging of myocardial ischaemia. It explores the psychopathological and experimental roots, the methodology, clinical practices and branches of possible future developments.

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Stress echocardiography today appears on the clinical stage as a clean and efficient option for diagnostic imaging of myocardial ischemia. This concise and therefore successful textbook stems from a long-standing experience and describes in a systematic fashion the recent diagnostic entity of stress echocardiography: the pathophysiological and experimental roots, the methodology, the clinical fruits and the new branches of possible future development. But first of all it tries to help the cardiologist in clinical practice know why, how and when to perform stress echocardiography.