Key result
Echocardiography plays a crucial role in planning aortic arch interventions, particularly utilizing suprasternal and subcostal views, though additional modalities may be needed for final diagnosis.
Why the study?
Most aortic arch interventions are planned based on echocardiography, despite the need for additional modalities for final diagnosis.
Echocardiography, particularly utilizing suprasternal and subcostal views, is a primary modality for planning interventions in patients with aortic arch anomalies.
May support echocardiography for aortic arch intervention planning; leaves open optimal multimodal integration.
Aortic arch anomalies are suspected on echocardiography, though the final diagnosis may need additional investigative modalities such as cardiac catheterization, computed tomography angiography or rarely magnetic resonance imaging. Most of the interevntions are however planned on the basis of echocardiography. Suprasternal and subcoastal views are particularly important for evaluation, although other indirect parameters such as pressure effects (ventricular hypertrophy) and ventricular dysfunction etc. may serve as indirect markers of the arch lesion. This review provides an overview of the role of echocardiography in planning aortic arch interventions.
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Awasthy et al. (2022) conducted a review in Aortic arch anomalies. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography plays a crucial role in planning aortic arch interventions, particularly utilizing suprasternal and subcostal views, though additional modalities may be needed for final diagnosis.
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