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Stress

echocardiography

seventh edition 2023

This is the seventh edition of a long-selling book (first edition 1991) translated into English, Italian, French, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. In the last 10 years, stress echocardiography has exploded in its breadth and variety of applications.

From a one-fits-all approach (wall motion by 2-D echo in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease), the field has progressed to omnivorous, next-generation laboratory employing a variety of technologies (from M-mode to 2D, from pulsed, continuous, color, and tissue Doppler to lung ultrasound) on patients covering the entire spectrum of severity (from elite athletes to patients with end-stage heart failure) and ages (from children with congenital heart disease to the elderly with aortic stenosis).

This new edition is enriched by over 350 figures, 150 tables, and video clips. In a societal and economic climate of increasing pressure for appropriate, justified, and optimized imaging, stress echocardiography offers the great advantage of being radiation-free, relatively low-cost, with minimal environmental impact, and with a staggering versatility: we can get more (information) with less (cost and risk).