Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: Early Predictor of Diagnosis and Prognosis in Coronary Artery Disease

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Advantages</td><td class="align_center">Disadvantages</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Noninvasive</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Lack of standardization and defined cutoff values</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Availability and repeatability</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Rapidity</td><td class="align_center">Operator-dependence</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Portability</td><td class="align_center">Acoustic window-dependence</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Low costs</td><td class="align_center">Challenging in case of high heart rate and arrhythmias</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Semiautomatic and angle-independent (more reliable than 2D-echo)</td><td class="align_center">Lower spatial resolution than other imaging methods</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Early diagnosis with regional localization of myocardial injury</td><td class="align_left"></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Differential diagnosis with bull eye-specific patterns</td><td class="align_left"></td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Benefits and drawbacks of using speckle tracking echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary artery disease.</div>

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