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ImageThe project was conceived and proposed by Eugenio Picano, who will follow the various phases (from the drafting of the protocols to the scientific and editorial finalization). However, SE 2020 belongs to the entire Italian echocardiographic community (which will manage protocols and databases in a shared way) and is open to all contributions. .

SE 2020 will coordinate and direct the interests of the Italian echocardiographic community to maintain SE today today has arrived, at the center of diagnostics in coronary heart disease and heart failure, but also to go beyond coronary heart disease and decompensation, in pathologies where the habit, despite the immense potential, is still limited.

The study is a prospective and multicenter research register, which plans to prospectively recruit 10,000 patients by 2020, spread over 10 different sub-projects (with its manager) and with at least 100 laboratories involved.

Quirino Ciampi and Eugenio Picano
SIEC ECHO NEWS - number 24, march 2016