Topics: Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear
New reports will be presented at this year’s Congress, with the latest evidence highlighting the role of this new technology.
Now, with such rapid development in imaging techniques, it is likely that non-invasive imaging will gain more importance in clinical cardiology – and probable also that these more accurate tests will revolutionise the diagnostics of cardiac diseases in the near future.
The emergence and wider use of these techniques over the past two decades – in echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac computed tomography – have been accompanied by a corresponding decline in mortality related to coronary artery disease, which, says Dr Luigi Badano, chairman of the Congress Programme Committee, must in some part be explained by new technology.
More than 3,000 participants are expected to attend this year’s congress, whose two main themes are cardiomyopathies (deterioration in the function of the heart muscle as a result of disease) and three-dimensional echocardiography.
EUROECHO 2009 will take place at IFEMA – Feria de Madrid. It is the 13th annual meeting of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE)- the oldest association of the European Society of Cardiology.
