Table 2.

Benefits and drawbacks of using speckle tracking echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary artery disease.

Advantages	Disadvantages
Noninvasive	Lack of standardization and defined cutoff values
Availability and repeatability
Rapidity	Operator-dependence
Portability	Acoustic window-dependence
Low costs	Challenging in case of high heart rate and arrhythmias
Semiautomatic and angle-independent (more reliable than 2D-echo)	Lower spatial resolution than other imaging methods
Early diagnosis with regional localization of myocardial injury
Differential diagnosis with bull eye-specific patterns