The new clinical standard of integrated quadruple stress echocardiography with ABCD protocol.
Eugenio PicanoQuirino CiampiKarina Wierzbowska-DrabikMădălina-Loredana UrluescuDoralisa MorroneClara CarpeggianiPublished in: Cardiovascular ultrasound (2018)
Stress echo is changing. As an old landline telephone with only one function, yesterday stress echo used one sign (regional wall motion abnormalities) for one patient with coronary artery disease. As a versatile smart-phone with multiple applications, stress echo today uses many signs for different pathophysiological and clinical targets. Large scale effectiveness studies are now in progress in the Stress Echo2020 project with the omnivorous "ABCD" protocol.
Keyphrases
- magnetic resonance
- coronary artery disease
- randomized controlled trial
- stress induced
- diffusion weighted imaging
- diffusion weighted
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- cardiovascular disease
- helicobacter pylori
- heat stress
- case report
- acute coronary syndrome
- cardiovascular events
- mass spectrometry
- helicobacter pylori infection
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- case control