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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Echocardiographic Advances in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

Andrea Faggiano, Carlo Avallone, Domitilla Gentile, Giovanni Provenzale, Filippo Toriello, Marco Merlo, Gianfranco Sinagra, Stefano Carugo

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Andrea FaggianoCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3247-3203
Carlo AvalloneCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Domitilla GentileCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9537-1159
Giovanni ProvenzaleCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5941-7666
Filippo TorielloCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6244-3515
Marco MerloCardiothoracovascular and Medical Surgical and Health Science Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina (ASUGI), University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Gianfranco SinagraCardiothoracovascular and Medical Surgical and Health Science Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina (ASUGI), University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Stefano CarugoCardiology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5166-0899

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the overall survival of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has improved significantly in the last decades, a non-negligible proportion of DCM patients still shows an unfavorable prognosis. DCM patients not only need imaging techniques that are effective in diagnosis, but also suitable for long-term follow-up with frequent re-evaluations. The exponential growth of echocardiography's technology and performance in recent years has resulted in improved diagnostic accuracy, stratification, management and follow-up of patients with DCM. This review summarizes some new developments in echocardiography and their promising applications in DCM. Although nowadays cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) remains the gold standard technique in DCM, the echocardiographic advances and novelties proposed in the manuscript, if properly integrated into clinical practice, could bring echocardiography closer to CMR in terms of accuracy and may certify ultrasound as the technique of choice in the follow-up of DCM patients. The application in DCM patients of novel echocardiographic techniques represents an interesting emergent research area for scholars in the near future.

Indexed as

artificial intelligencedilated cardiomyopathyechocardiographic advancesechocardiographyejection fractionglobal longitudinal strainheart failureleft ventricular remodeling

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PMID34884220
PMCPMC8658091

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