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Seventy percent of angina patients with inducible ischemia have been found to have non-obstructive coronary arteries on anatomical imaging i.e. INOCA. These patients are underdiagnosed and undertreated with significant associated morbidity and mortality. Besides inducible ischemia by stress echocardiography, CFVR can establish the mechanism and implement GDMT. To measure CFVR by Doppler echocardiography as a marker of CMD in patients with INOCA has been endorsed by the current Multi-Societal guideline with 2b class of recommendation. The alternative tests to be able to assess CMD are either very expensive or not readily available or are invasive with inherent risks.
We would like to collect research on the field of multi-parametric echocardiography to assess patients with chest pain including the assessment of the bread-and-butter regional wall motion abnormalities and the more sophisticated sonographic images of coronary arteries directly to measure the CFV both at rest and during different pharmacological stress tests. In addition, we would like to discuss the feasibility and the role of contrast myocardial perfusion echocardiography during stress echocardiography. These echo-based imaging principles allow us to phenotype our chest pain patients from occlusive coronary arteries to angina with no obstructive coronary artery disease and to reassure patients about non-cardiac chest pain.
We would like to invite original research papers teaching the professionals on the basic and latest development of multi-parametric sonography including topics on:
1. The basics of coronary vasomotion and reactivity - resistance and its assessment (comparisons between invasive and non-invasive modalities)
2. Coronary artery imaging by echocardiography (harmonics and UEA)
3. Coronary flow velocity assessment with echocardiography
4. Myocardial contrast perfusion sonography
5. Automated wall motion analysis
We would like to collect research on the field of multi-parametric echocardiography to assess patients with chest pain including the assessment of the bread-and-butter regional wall motion abnormalities and the more sophisticated sonographic images of coronary arteries directly to measure the CFV both at rest and during different pharmacological stress tests. In addition, we would like to discuss the feasibility and the role of contrast myocardial perfusion echocardiography during stress echocardiography. These echo-based imaging principles allow us to phenotype our chest pain patients from occlusive coronary arteries to angina with no obstructive coronary artery disease and to reassure patients about non-cardiac chest pain.
We would like to invite original research papers teaching the professionals on the basic and latest development of multi-parametric sonography including topics on:
1. The basics of coronary vasomotion and reactivity - resistance and its assessment (comparisons between invasive and non-invasive modalities)
2. Coronary artery imaging by echocardiography (harmonics and UEA)
3. Coronary flow velocity assessment with echocardiography
4. Myocardial contrast perfusion sonography
5. Automated wall motion analysis
Keywords: Coronary sonography, Regional wall motion, Coronary flow velocity reserve, contrast echocardiography, Myocardial contrast perfusion sonography
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