Key result
Tissue doppler imaging and color M-mode echocardiography are promising technologies for assessing the elastic properties of the thoracic aorta in patients with coronary artery disease.
Why the study?
Coronary atherosclerosis correlates with changes in thoracic aorta elastic properties, and developing ultrasound technologies can expand standard echocardiography to assess these properties in CAD patients.
Modern ultrasound techniques like tissue Doppler imaging and color M-mode can expand standard echocardiography by evaluating thoracic aorta elasticity, which correlates with coronary atherosclerosis severity.
Adding aortic elasticity assessment to echocardiography may aid CAD evaluation; leaves open clinical utility pending prospective validation.
The main goal of echocardiography is not to diagnose CAD or changes associated with CAD, but to reveal non-coronary heart disease. Currently, the development of ultrasound technologies makes it possible to expand the standard echocardiography by evaluating the elastic properties of the thoracic aorta. Due to the fact that studies show correlation between the presence and severity of coronary atherosclerosis with changes in the elastic properties of the thoracic aorta, this solution improves the usefulness of echocardiography in patients with CAD. The most promising in assessing the elastic properties of the thoracic aorta during the traditional transthoracic echocardiography are tissue doppler imaging (TDI) and color M-mode. Color M-mode is a technology that is mainly used in echocardiography to assess the compliance of the left ventricle by examining the mitral inflow propagation velocity. This technology may be used in the descending part of the thoracic aorta, where it will similarly display the elastic properties.
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Mushkambarov et al. (2019) conducted a review in Coronary atherosclerosis. Tissue doppler imaging (TDI) and color M-mode echocardiography was evaluated. Tissue doppler imaging and color M-mode echocardiography are promising technologies for assessing the elastic properties of the thoracic aorta in patients with coronary artery disease.
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