Literature review reveals echocardiographic techniques improve diagnosis of contractility disorders, suggesting enhanced diagnostic accuracy for coronary patients.
Сurrently, the main method for identifying transient disorders of local contractility of the left ventricular myocardium in patients with coronary atherosclerosis is a visual assessment of myocardial contractility under physical or pharmacological stress. Visual assessment of myocardial contractility, especially in stress tests, requires extensive experience in conducting such studies. However, visual assessment by even the most experienced operator is still subjective. So, one of the main areas of diagnostics of disorders of local contractility of the left ventricle has been and remains the development of methods for objective quantitative assessment of the functional state of various areas of the left ventricular myocardium. A significant success in this area was the creation of a speckle-tracking echocardiography technique, which allows for a quantitative assessment of myocardial deformation during its contraction and relaxation. The review presents the results of studies indicating that the determination of left ventricular myocardial deformation indices may become an alternative to the traditional method, devoid of such disadvantages as the subjectivity of visual information perception and very high requirements for the operator's qualification level. Deepening knowledge about the mechanisms, clinical significance of various myocardial deformation indices, the improvement of both the speckle-tracking echocardiography technique itself and the algorithms for automated processing of the data creates a real prospect for its introduction into clinical practice as the main method for identifying transient disorders of local left ventricular contractility in patients with hemodynamically significant coronary atherosclerosis.
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