Key result
Novel echocardiographic techniques improve the functional assessment of the right ventricle in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, showing good correlation with cardiac magnetic resonance.
Why the study?
Assessing right ventricular performance with conventional echocardiography is challenging, despite increasing awareness of its crucial role in conditions such as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Novel echocardiographic techniques provide improved functional assessment of the right ventricle in HFrEF, correlating well with cardiac magnetic resonance.
During the last decade, studies have raised awareness of the crucial role that the right ventricle plays in various clinical settings, including diseases primarily linked to the left ventricle. The assessment of right ventricular performance with conventional echocardiography is challenging. Novel echocardiographic techniques improve the functional assessment of the right ventricle and they show good correlation with the gold standard represented by cardiac magnetic resonance. This review summarizes the traditional and innovative echocardiographic techniques used in the functional assessment of the right ventricle, focusing on the role of right ventricular dysfunction in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and providing a perspective on recent evidence from literature.
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Vijiiac et al. (2021) conducted a review in Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Echocardiographic techniques was evaluated. Novel echocardiographic techniques improve the functional assessment of the right ventricle in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, showing good correlation with cardiac magnetic resonance.
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