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Echocardiography provides essential real-time noninvasive hemodynamic evaluation for diagnosing stress-induced cardiomyopathy and managing complications such as left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and thrombus formation.
This review highlights the essential role of various echocardiographic modalities in the diagnosis, hemodynamic evaluation, and management of stress-induced cardiomyopathy.
Supports echocardiography for real-time evaluation in stress cardiomyopathy; leaves open prospective validation of outcome impact.
Echocardiography is widely used to carry out non-invasive cardiac evaluation at the bedside and provides useful real-time information about hemodynamics. It can also be used to diagnose a stress-induced cardiomyopathy and its complications such as shock, heart failure and apical thrombus. Early diagnosis and management are important to prevent possible complications, and short-term follow-up by echocardiography can readily determine the improvement in these abnormalities. In this brief review, we summarize the role of echocardiography in stress-induced cardiomyopathy, with a special focus on its benefits in the era of new emerging diagnostic technology.
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Lee et al. (2011) conducted a review in Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy). Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography provides essential real-time noninvasive hemodynamic evaluation for diagnosing stress-induced cardiomyopathy and managing complications such as left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and thrombus formation.
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