ABSTRACT
Stress echocardiography since the 1990s has become an established tool for the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and for the stratifi cation of an individual patient with known coronary artery disease. Conventional two-dimensional (2D) stress echocardiography is based on the serial acquisition of the typical four or fi ve transthoracic image planes mainly from parasternal and apical echo windows. The acquisition is performed at rest and during different levels of either physical or pharmacological stress.
