Review Article
Echocardiography in the Era of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging
Table 1
A summary table comparing the four main modalities in cardiac imaging.
| | Echocardiography | Nuclear cardiology | CMR | CCT |
| Availability | +++ | ++ | ++ | ++ | Cost | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | Ionising radiation | − | ++ | − | ++ | Extracardiac information | + | + | +++ | +++ | Coronary artery assessment | + | − | ++ | +++ | Assessment of systolic function | +++ | ++ | +++ | ++ | Assessment of diastolic function | +++ | + | + | + | Assessment of valvular function | +++ | − | ++ | + | Physiological stress testing | + | + | − | − | Pharmacological stress testing | + | + | + | − | Contraindication | − | − | Most implanted devices | − | Limited by renal failure | − | − | + | + | Risk of claustrophobia | − | + | ++ | + |
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