Journal of Clinical Medicine (Aug 2021)

Stress Echo 2030: The Novel ABCDE-(FGLPR) Protocol to Define the Future of Imaging

  • Eugenio Picano,
  • Quirino Ciampi,
  • Lauro Cortigiani,
  • Adelaide M. Arruda-Olson,
  • Clarissa Borguezan-Daros,
  • José Luis de Castro e Silva Pretto,
  • Rosangela Cocchia,
  • Eduardo Bossone,
  • Elisa Merli,
  • Garvan C. Kane,
  • Albert Varga,
  • Gergely Agoston,
  • Maria Chiara Scali,
  • Doralisa Morrone,
  • Iana Simova,
  • Martina Samardjieva,
  • Alla Boshchenko,
  • Tamara Ryabova,
  • Alexander Vrublevsky,
  • Attila Palinkas,
  • Eszter D. Palinkas,
  • Robert Sepp,
  • Marco A. R. Torres,
  • Hector R. Villarraga,
  • Tamara Kovačević Preradović,
  • Rodolfo Citro,
  • Miguel Amor,
  • Hugo Mosto,
  • Michael Salamè,
  • Paul Leeson,
  • Cristina Mangia,
  • Nicola Gaibazzi,
  • Domenico Tuttolomondo,
  • Costantina Prota,
  • Jesus Peteiro,
  • Caroline M. Van De Heyning,
  • Antonello D’Andrea,
  • Fausto Rigo,
  • Aleksandra Nikolic,
  • Miodrag Ostojic,
  • Jorge Lowenstein,
  • Rosina Arbucci,
  • Diego M. Lowenstein Haber,
  • Pablo M. Merlo,
  • Karina Wierzbowska-Drabik,
  • Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak,
  • Maciej Haberka,
  • Ana Cristina Camarozano,
  • Nithima Ratanasit,
  • Fabio Mori,
  • Maria Grazia D’Alfonso,
  • Luigi Tassetti,
  • Alessandra Milazzo,
  • Iacopo Olivotto,
  • Alberto Marchi,
  • Hugo Rodriguez-Zanella,
  • Angela Zagatina,
  • Ratnasari Padang,
  • Milica Dekleva,
  • Ana Djordievic-Dikic,
  • Nikola Boskovic,
  • Milorad Tesic,
  • Vojislav Giga,
  • Branko Beleslin,
  • Giovanni Di Salvo,
  • Valentina Lorenzoni,
  • Matteo Cameli,
  • Giulia Elena Mandoli,
  • Tonino Bombardini,
  • Pio Caso,
  • Jelena Celutkiene,
  • Andrea Barbieri,
  • Giovanni Benfari,
  • Ylenia Bartolacelli,
  • Alessandro Malagoli,
  • Francesca Bursi,
  • Francesca Mantovani,
  • Bruno Villari,
  • Antonello Russo,
  • Michele De Nes,
  • Clara Carpeggiani,
  • Ines Monte,
  • Federica Re,
  • Carlos Cotrim,
  • Giuseppe Bilardo,
  • Ariel K. Saad,
  • Arnas Karuzas,
  • Dovydas Matuliauskas,
  • Paolo Colonna,
  • Francesco Antonini-Canterin,
  • Mauro Pepi,
  • Patricia A. Pellikka,
  • The Stress Echo 2030 Study Group of the Italian Society of Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Imaging (SIECVI)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10163641
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 16
p. 3641

Abstract

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With stress echo (SE) 2020 study, a new standard of practice in stress imaging was developed and disseminated: the ABCDE protocol for functional testing within and beyond CAD. ABCDE protocol was the fruit of SE 2020, and is the seed of SE 2030, which is articulated in 12 projects: 1-SE in coronary artery disease (SECAD); 2-SE in diastolic heart failure (SEDIA); 3-SE in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (SEHCA); 4-SE post-chest radiotherapy and chemotherapy (SERA); 5-Artificial intelligence SE evaluation (AI-SEE); 6-Environmental stress echocardiography and air pollution (ESTER); 7-SE in repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (SETOF); 8-SE in post-COVID-19 (SECOV); 9: Recovery by stress echo of conventionally unfit donor good hearts (RESURGE); 10-SE for mitral ischemic regurgitation (SEMIR); 11-SE in valvular heart disease (SEVA); 12-SE for coronary vasospasm (SESPASM). The study aims to recruit in the next 5 years (2021–2025) ≥10,000 patients followed for ≥5 years (up to 2030) from ≥20 quality-controlled laboratories from ≥10 countries. In this COVID-19 era of sustainable health care delivery, SE2030 will provide the evidence to finally recommend SE as the optimal and versatile imaging modality for functional testing anywhere, any time, and in any patient.

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