ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Echocardiography in the Assessment of Heart Failure Patients.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effect of AI-assisted bedside echocardiography on inpatient care: a prospective trial.European heart journal. Digital health · 2026Article
- Advances in targeting myocardial fibrosis: integrating mechanisms and therapeutics.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Heart at Hand: The Role of Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound in Internal Medicine.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Linking Heart Function to Prognosis: The Role of a Novel Echocardiographic Index and NT-proBNP in Acute Heart Failure.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Detailed Insights into the Relationship Between Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography-Derived Systolic Left Atrial Global Strains and Left Ventricular Volumes in Healthy Adults from the MAGYAR-Healthy Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Atrial remodelling and dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: prognostic role and therapeutic target.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
Doppler echocardiography is the corner-stone of non-invasive investigation of patients with a clinical diagnosis of heart failure. It provides an accurate and quantitative assessment of cardiac structure and function. Furthermore, spectral Doppler measurement is an invaluable technique for estimating intracardiac pressures with their crucial value in the optimum management of heart failure patients, irrespective of ejection fraction. Speckle tracking echocardiography stretches the unique application of echocardiography to analyze the myocardial deformation function which has proved very accurate in detecting ischemia, dyssynchrony, subclinical dysfunction and also in estimating pulmonary capillary wedge pressures. The role of longitudinal myocardial left atrial deformation dynamics has recently emerged as a valuable tool for assessing left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with cardiac diseases regardless of their ejection fraction. Finally, the extent of myocardial deformation has been shown to correlate with the severity of myocardial fibrosis, a common finding in patients with heart failure.
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