Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Disease
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 481
Special Issue Editors
Interests: three-dimensional echocardiography; right ventricular function; hemodynamic management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Echocardiography is a paramount tool to detect cardiac pathologies. As a rapidly available and non-invasive diagnostic tool, it helps emergency physisicans, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists and intensive care medics to provide optimal patient care in various clinical settings. Current international guidelines recommend echocardiography not only for initial patient assessment but also for follow-up examinations of cardiac diseases, guidance during modern catheter-based interventions and acute hemodynamic management. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research articles (original articles, reviews and meta-analyses) covering state-of-the-art technologies and novel aspects regarding echocardiographic imaging. The intention is to facillitate an understanding of scientific innovations as well as clinical implementation to its readers, namely researchers, physicians and students. While articles should emphasize the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac disease, they may cover a wide range of employed techniques, e.g., three-dimensional echocardiography, speckle-tracking, articficial inteligence, head-to-head comparisons to other imaging modalities (such as cardiac magnetic resonance or computed tomography imaging) or hemodynamic measurements, atrial function assessment, intracardiac ultrasound, contrast echocardiography, and (interventional) transesophageal echocardiography.
Submissions are highly appreciated by the Guest Editors, and we wish to thank you in advance for your efforts in conducting articles of high scientific quality.
Dr. Marius Keller
Dr. Fabian Aus dem Siepen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- echocardiography
- cardiac disease
- cardiomyopathiy
- coronary artery disease
- valvular heart disease
- left ventricular function
- right ventricular function
- strain imaging
- speckle-tracking
- interventional TEE
