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Global echocardiography guidelines from international societies may overlook challenges unique to the practice of echocardiography in the Indian subcontinent.
Highlights the need to adapt international echocardiography guidelines to address unique challenges in the Indian subcontinent.
Echocardiography is a widely utilized cardiac imaging modality.However, despite the vast array of diagnostic capabilities, the generally subjective nature of interpretation necessitates high degree of operator expertise to ensure diagnostic accuracy of the interpretations.Imaging guidelines and performance standards are therefore an integral component of echocardiography training and are required to ensure consistency of imaging and accuracy of the interpretations.To meet this objective, International societies like the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) have over the years developed consensus statements and recommendations for all the clinically relevant aspects of cardiac ultrasound and its application.Although these recommendations are adopted for echocardiography practices globally, such approaches have the limitation of overlooking the challenges that are unique to the practice of echocardiography in different parts of the world.The present commentary discusses some of the challenges that are unique for the Indian subcontinent and focus on the guideline documents related to three commonest indications for performing echocardiography-cardiac chamber quantification, 1,2 evaluation of valve diseases 3,4 and assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function.
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Bansal et al. (2015) conducted an editorial in Echocardiography. Global echocardiography guidelines from international societies may overlook challenges unique to the practice of echocardiography in the Indian subcontinent.
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