Key result
Cardiac ultrasound provides sophisticated assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics and global and regional myocardial function.
Why the study?
Recent developments in cardiac ultrasound allow exploitation of newer physical concepts for assessing cardiac function, necessitating a comprehensive review of current approaches and clinical impact.
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Reinforces standard echocardiographic parameters for LV assessment in CVD; leaves open prospective validation of strain imaging.
Our understanding of the physical underpinnings of the assessment of cardiac function is becoming increasingly sophisticated. Recent developments in cardiac ultrasound permit exploitation of many of these newer physical concepts with current echocardiographic machines. This review will first focus on the current approach to the assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics by cardiac ultrasound. The next focus will be the assessment of global cardiac mechanics in systole and diastole. Finally, relationships between the cardiac structure and regional myocardial function, and the way regional function can be quantified by ultrasound, will be presented. This review also discusses the clinical impact of echocardiography and its future directions and developments.
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Thomas et al. (2006) conducted a review in Cardiac function assessment. Cardiac ultrasound was evaluated. Cardiac ultrasound provides sophisticated assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics, global cardiac mechanics in systole and diastole, and regional myocardial function.
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