1. Stress echocardiography: a historical perspective -- 2. Anatomical and functional targets of stress testing -- 3. Symptoms and signs of myocardial ischemia -- 4. Rational basis of stress echocardiography -- 5. Pathogenetic mechanisms of stress -- 6. Echocardiographic signs of ischemia -- 7. Segmentation of the left ventricle -- 8. Right heart stress echocardiography -- 9. Coronary flow reserve -- 10. Stress echocardiography: instructions for use -- 11. Exercise echocardiography -- 12. Dobutamine stress echocardiography -- 13. Dipyridamole stress echocardiography -- 14. Adenosine and Regadenoson stress echocardiography -- 15. Pacing stress echocardiography -- 16. Ergonovine stress echocardiography -- 17. Hyperventilation, handgrip, cold pressor and squatting stress echocardiography -- 18. Grading of ischemic response -- 19. Diagnostic results and indications -- 20. Myocardial viabili -- 21. Diagnostic flowcharts -- 22. Prognosis -- 23. New technologies -- 24. Contrast stressechocardiography -- 25. Diastolic stress echocardiography -- 26. Endothelial function in the stress echo laboratory -- 27. Special subsets of angiographically defined patients -- 28. Special subsets of electrocardiographically defined patients -- 29. Special subsets of clinically defined patients -- 30. Microvascular disease -- 31. Hypertension -- 32. Diabetes -- 33. Stress echocardiography in dilated cardiomyopathy -- 34. Stress echocardiography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- 35. Stress echocardiography after cardiac transplantation -- 36. Stress Doppler echocardiography in valvular heart disease -- 37. Pediatric Stress echocardiography -- 38. Stress echocardiography and nuclear imaging -- 39. Stress echo vs MSCT -- 40. Stress echo vs cardiac magnetic resonance imaging -- 41. Appropriateness in the cardiac imaging and stress echo laboratory.