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Author(s): Sahar S Abdelmoneim , Sharon L Mulvagh Added: 3 years ago
Several advances in the field of echocardiography have led to improvements in the accuracy of stress echocardiography (SE) and further strengthened its established diagnostic and prognostic role in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). 1,2 In addition to its role in CAD, SE can be used to assess the severity of valvular heart disease and for detection of occult pulmonary… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Edina Cenko
Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna. She received her MD degree from School of Medicine, University of Bologna and Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Bologna. Dr. Cenko’s large interests include epidemiology and outcomes of ischemic heart disease, natural therapy of acute and chronic… View more
Author(s): Nithima Chaowalit , Patricia A Pellikka Added: 3 years ago
How Far Have We Come? Cardiac imaging using ultrasound (so-called ‘echocardiography’) was introduced more than 50 years ago. Resting echocardiographic detection of myocardial infarction was described as the reduction in regional contractile function,1 and the development of stress echocardiography in the early era was recognised after the introduction of 2D echocardiographic imaging. The initial… View more

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Cardio-oncology A-Z: Radiation Induced Heart Disease With Dr Joshua Mitchell
Author(s): Joshua Mitchell Added: 1 year ago
In this video we asked, Dr Joshua Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and the Director of our Cardio-Oncology Centre Of Excellence, to summarise the topic of radiation induced heart disease. Dr Mitchell's clinical interests include cardiotoxicity from cancer therapy and cancer survivorship. Discussion Points: 1. Types of Radiation Induced Heart… View more

CV Disease in Special Populations
Mario Marzilli
Job title: Professor and Chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Mario Marzilli has been Professor and Chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cardiothoracic Department of Pisa University Medical School (Italy) since 2007. He is also Director of the Post-Graduate School of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pisa (from 2010). His research is focused on coronary pathophysiology, interventional cardiology, ischemic heart disease,… View more
Job title: Associate Professor of Cardiology
Linda Mellbin is Associate Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Coronary Artery Disease Patient Area at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focus is on the field of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at Karolinska Institutet. Associate Professor Mellbin has authored several original papers, review articles and book chapters she was project leader for the… View more
Jeffrey W Moses
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics
Dr Moses currently serves as Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics at Columbia University Medical Center and as Director of Advanced Cardiac Interventions at St Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Roslyn, NY. Dr. Moses is an Associate Director of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, the world’s largest interventional cardiology conference. He serves on… View more