Application of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

It is our honor to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, entitled “Application of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Diseases”. Transthoracic echocardiography is the most effective, low-cost, minimally invasive, and readily available imaging modality for the assessment of patients exhibiting cardiac symptoms. It plays a central role in identifying or ruling out suspected acute and chronic cardiac diseases. Second, echocardiography is essential in follow-up on previously diagnosed valvular disease or heart failure. In those with heart failure, it would provide meaningful information to better treat the patient. In addition, novel techniques (transesophageal, stress, contrast, myocardial strain imaging, and three-dimensional (3D), intracardiac, echocardiography) have expanded the indications in a variety of ways and a wide range of clinical situations. Bedside echocardiography is routinely used now for patients who are critically ill with known or unknown cardiac diseases in order to elucidate the etiology of cardiovascular and respiratory failures. The role of echocardiography is increasing in patients who are asymptomatic and had, for example, a family history of sudden death, or in athletes. In this Special Issue, we aim to collect original articles and reviews focusing on the role of echocardiography on the whole spectrum of diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. Multidisciplinary manuscripts are also welcomed.

Dr. Calin Pop
Dr. Antoniu Petris
Guest Editors

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