[The best of echocardiography in 2006].
In recent years, Doppler echocardiography has undergone significant technological advances, resulting in spectacular improvements in diagnosis and quantification. This review summarises the advances made in 2006 in fields as varied as cardiac resynchronisation, cardiac failure with preserved systolic function, contrast echocardiography, 3D echocardiography and echocardiographic evaluation of valvular heart disease. Despite growing competition, but mostly complementarity with CT scan and MRI, Doppler echocardiography remains the keystone of cardiological rationale based on non-intensive investigations.
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Hôpital La Timone, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13005 Marseille. gilbert.habib@free.fr
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D004452:Echocardiography / Q000639:trends*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000639:trends*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013599:Systole; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed