Key result
Echocardiography provides a quick, easy, and accurate method for fully assessing prosthetic valve function, avoiding the risks associated with cardiac catheterization.
Why the study?
Does echocardiography provide accurate assessment of prosthetic valve function while avoiding the risks of cardiac catheterization?
Does echocardiography provide accurate assessment of prosthetic valve function while avoiding the risks of cardiac catheterization?
Echocardiography is an effective, non-invasive method for fully assessing prosthetic valve function and performing routine serial follow-up.
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Supports echocardiography for non-invasive prosthetic valve assessment; leaves open prospective validation in modern devices.
The advent of high-quality ultrasound technology has made the assessment of prosthetic valve function quicker, easier, and more accurate than ever before. By using cross-sectional imaging, colour flow mapping, and spectral Doppler techniques from both the precordium and the oesophagus, it is possible to assess a prosthetic valve fully. Cardiac catheterization with its attendant risks can be avoided. Echocardiography gives detailed morphological information, and it can be used for routine serial follow-up of individual patients. Using the patient as his or her own control avoids the problems caused by poorly-defined 'normal ranges' for prosthetic function.
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Fraser et al. (1992) conducted a review in Prosthetic valve function. Echocardiography vs. Cardiac catheterization was evaluated. Echocardiography provides a quick, easy, and accurate method for fully assessing prosthetic valve function, avoiding the risks associated with cardiac catheterization.
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