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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 16, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(14):1646-1647; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl091
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The stress echo dilemma: time counts, but image quality too

Andreas Franke*

Medical Clinic I, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, D52057 Aachen, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 241 8080605; fax: +49 241 8082303. E-mail address: afranke@ukaachen.de

This editorial refers to ‘Comparison of real-time tri-plane and conventional 2D dobutamine stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease’{dagger} by E. Eroglu et al., on page 1719

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Stress echocardiography has become an attractive tool in the hands of the clinical cardiologist helping in the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. However, there are some significant limitations to the technique, so that it remains difficult to acquire the data and to analyse the images.

Main limitations for stress echo acquisition are: (i) image quality during transthoracic scanning with insufficient visualization of left ventricle (LV) walls; (ii) probe positioning difficulties resulting in inadequate image planes; and (iii) the time-consuming serial acquisition of different image planes which has to be performed in a narrow time window during peak stress while . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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