What does this research mean for the field?

Echocardiography, enhanced by novel 3D and strain imaging techniques, remains an indispensable tool for assessing right ventricular size and function despite the inherent challenges of its unique structural characteristics. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To review the clinical role, standardized guidelines, and advancing echocardiographic methodologies used to evaluate right ventricular size and function.

August 22, 2017Echocardiography

Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in the current era: Application in clinical practice

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Patients with right heart pathology, including heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism…

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SVSridhar VenkatachalamCHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Memorial GWGeru WuThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston MAMasood AhmadThe University of Agriculture, Peshawar

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Implication

Supports continued clinical use of echocardiography for RV assessment; leaves open need for outcome-validated protocols.

Key Points

To review the clinical role, standardized guidelines, and advancing echocardiographic methodologies used to evaluate right ventricular size and function.
Synthesized current clinical chamber quantification guidelines alongside multimodality imaging approaches for right ventricular evaluation.
Evaluated conventional two-dimensional echocardiographic parameters in comparison to novel modalities including three-dimensional echocardiography and strain imaging.
Right ventricular dysfunction serves as a critical prognostic indicator of morbidity and mortality in heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, and adult congenital heart disease.
Advanced techniques, specifically three-dimensional volume quantification and strain imaging, expand diagnostic utility by overcoming standard two-dimensional geometric limitations.

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Population

Patients with right heart pathology, including heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, right ventricular myocardial infarction, and adult congenital heart disease

Intervention

Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle (including 3D and strain imaging)

Echocardiography, particularly with novel approaches like 3D and strain imaging, remains an indispensable tool for the standardized assessment of right ventricular size and function in clinical practice.

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Venkatachalam et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a198be9443d3ecd7cdebb5a https://doi.org/10.1111/echo.13651

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Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in the current era: Application in clinical practice

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Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in the current era: Application in clinical practice

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