ASE's Comprehensive Strain Imaging

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.

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

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