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Echocardiography provides key diagnostic and prognostic value in managing AF and ventricular arrhythmias.
This review highlights the diagnostic and prognostic value of echocardiography in managing patients with atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias.
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May aid arrhythmia evaluation; leaves open prospective validation of protocols and outcomes.
Cardiac arrhythmias refer to any abnormality or disturbance in the normal activation sequence of the myocardium and may be indicative of structural heart disease and the cause of significant cardiovascular complications and sudden cardiac death. The following review summarizes the current state-of-the-art knowledge on the role of echocardiography in the management of cardiac arrhythmias and focuses on atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias where echocardiography presents a particular diagnostic and prognostic interest. Moreover, a brief reference is made to the effect of cardiac arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities on echocardiographic examination.
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Papadopoulos et al. (2017) conducted a review in Cardiac arrhythmias. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography plays a key diagnostic and prognostic role in the management of cardiac arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias.
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