Stress Echocardiography [antikvár]

Preface to the Second Edition Once the first edition of this boolc had been rapidly sold out, the Publisher and I had to face the usual dilemma: reprint or second edition? The impressive amount of new information obtained in the last years in the field of stress echo forced us to choose the more painful pathway of a second edition. Seven brand-new chapters, 40 figures and more than 100 references were added; almost every single paragraph was updated. Since the first edition, many things have changed: many colleagues have helped me, with their work and their ideas, to make the common bouse of stress echo larger and more comfortable. First of all, the participants of the EPIC and EDIC network, who in an unselfish way provided an amount of information virtually unique in the field of cardiology imaging. In the Pisa homeland, old fellows left, new ones arrived: Maria Joao Andrade, Lu Chunzeng, Mauro Raciti, Patrizia Landi, Tonino Bombardini, Andrés Orlandini, Angelo Camerieri, Guido Gigli, Albert Varga, Monica de Alcantara, Adriana Cordovil, Maria José Carolina Bento de Sousa, Luis Fehpe de Moura Duarte, Luciano Pozzi have spent their time and talents in stress echo. I want to express my special gratitude to my closest coworkers, who had to work hard, and more, for nothing, or less, and were also asked to be happy for that: Alessandro Pingitore ("the Lattanzi of the ninedes"), and Rosa Sicari. Antonio Caselli masterfully edited the manuscript for English language. Claudia Taddei patiently typed the numberless revisions of the text. But, what is most important, stress echo has changed in the general perception of the cardiological community: no longer a promising innovation looked