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ASE's Comprehensive Strain Imaging

  • Book

  • August 2021
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5230684
Strain imaging (also known as speckle-tracking echocardiography or STE) is a�rapidly growing, affordable, and versatile�cardiac imaging technology of great interest to clinicians in both inpatient and outpatient settings.�ASE's Comprehensive Strain Imaging�is the�first reference�designed to help you master a wide range of strain imaging/STE applications, including�screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow up. Written and edited by a team of international experts from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), this new resource provides the information you need to optimize imaging acquisition and analysis using this important new echocardiography method.
  • Covers�step-by-step techniques�on how to use strain imaging with expert tips on nuances,� pitfalls, and clinical decision making.�

  • Discusses the�growing range of strain imaging applications�for assessing diastolic function, atrial function, heart failure, arterial disease, valve disease, hypertrophy, and other common cardiovascular conditions.���

  • Provides�up-to-date information�on screening and follow up of patients who receive cardio-toxic oncologic agents during cancer treatment and evaluation of patients with cardiomyopathy, heart failure, arterial disease, valve disease, implantable pacemakers, pericardial disease, hypertrophy, ischemic disease, and chest radiation.�

  • Includes�more than 150 images�using the latest strain imaging technology, as well as videos that depict evaluation and monitoring of patients with cardiomyopathies.�

  • Addresses�future applications, including elastography.�

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase.�Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Emergence of Strain Imaging

Chapter 2 Strain Imaging Applications and Techniques

Chapter 3 Screening and Follow-Up in Cardio-Oncology Patients

Chapter 4 Evaluation of Chest Radiation Patients

Chapter 5 Evaluation and Monitoring of Patients with Cardiomyopathies

Chapter 6 Evaluation and Monitoring of Patients with Heart Failure

Chapter 7 Evaluation and Monitoring of Patients with Pericardial Disease

Chapter 8 Future Applications of Strain Imaging

Authors

Thomas H. Marwick Director and Chief Executive, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Theodore P. Abraham Clinical Chief of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Echocardiography, Co-Director, UCSF HCM Center of Excellence, San Francisco, California.