Stress Echocardiography

Part I. The Signs
1. Step A for Regional Wall Motion Abnormality in Stress Echocardiography
2. Step B for B-Lines in Stress Echocardiography
3. Step C for Cardiac Reserve in Stress Echocardiography
4. Step D for Doppler-Based Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve in Stress Echocardiography
5. Step E for EKG-Based Heart Rate Reserve in Stress Echocardiography
6. Step F for Mitral Regurgitant Flow in Stress Echocardiography
7. Step G for Gradients in Stress Echocardiography
8. Step L for Left Atrium Stress Echocardiography
9. Step P for Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Stress Echocardiography
10. Step R for Right Ventricular Function in Stress Echocardiography
11. ABCDE Protocol for Stress Echocardiography in Chronic Coronary Syndromes
12. The ABCDE-FGLPR Protocol for Stress Echocardiography Beyond Coronary Artery Disease
Part II. Training and Technology
13. Strain and Real-Time Three-Dimensional Stress Echocardiography
14. Contrast Stress Echocardiography
15. Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Stress Echocardiography
16. Technology and Training Requirements in Stress Echocardiography
Part III. The Stresses: How, When, and Why
17. Exercise Echocardiography
18. Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography
19. Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography
20. Adenosine, Regadenoson Stress Echocardiography
21. Pacing Stress Echocardiography
22. Ergonovine Stress Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Vasospastic Angina
23. Hyperventilation, Handgrip, Cold Pressor Stress Echocardiography
Part IV. The Patients
24. Stress Echocardiography in Special Subsets of Angiographically Defined Patients: Normal Coronary Arteries, Single-Vessel Disease, Left Main, Chronic Total Occlusion, and Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization
25. Stress Echocardiography in Special Subsets of Electrocardiographically Defined Patients: Left Bundle Branch Block, Right Bundle Branch Block, and Atrial Fibrillation
26. Stress Echocardiography in Special Subsets of Clinically Defined Patients: Elderly, Women, Outpatients, Chest Pain Unit, and Noncardiac Surgery
27. Diastolic Stress Echocardiography
28. Stress Echocardiography in Hypertension
29. Stress Echocardiography in Diabetes
30. Stress Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
31. Stress Echocardiography in Dilated Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy
32. Stress Echocardiography in Angina with Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries
33. Stress Echocardiography After Cardiac Transplantation
34. Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease
35. Stress Echocardiography in Cancer Survivors After Chemo- and Radiotherapy
36. Stress Echocardiography in Pulmonary Hypertension
37. Pediatric Stress Echocardiography
38. Stress Echocardiography in Athletes and Extreme Physiology
39. Stress Echocardiography Post-COVID-19
Part V. The Society
40. Economic Sustainability of Cardiac Imaging
41. Radiologic Sustainability of Cardiac Imaging
42. Environmental Sustainability of Cardiac Imaging
43. The Road to Stress Echo 2030

This is the seventh edition of a long-selling book (first edition 1991) that was translated into Italian, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, English. In the last ten years, stress echocardiography has exploded in its breadth and variety of applications.  From a one-fits-all approach (wall motion by 2D-echo in the patient with known or suspected coronary artery disease), the field has progressed to an 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 with over 300 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 advantages 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). The volume will be a tremendous aid to current best practices for all health operators who intend to use stress echocardiography and ultrasound for diagnosis and guidance of optimal management  in their patients.