1. Echocardiographic Advances in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
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Filippo Toriello, Carlo Avallone, Domitilla Gentile, Stefano Carugo, Giovanni Provenzale, Marco Merlo, Andrea Faggiano, Gianfranco Sinagra, Faggiano, Andrea, Avallone, Carlo, Gentile, Domitilla, Provenzale, Giovanni, Toriello, Filippo, Merlo, Marco, Sinagra, Gianfranco, and Carugo, Stefano
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medicine.medical_specialty ,heart failure ,Diagnostic accuracy ,Review ,artificial intelligence ,dilated cardiomyopathy ,echocardiographic advances ,echocardiography ,ejection fraction ,global longitudinal strain ,left ventricular remodeling ,complex mixtures ,echocardiographic advance ,Internal medicine ,Overall survival ,medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,Ejection fraction ,business.industry ,Dilated cardiomyopathy ,General Medicine ,Gold standard (test) ,musculoskeletal system ,medicine.disease ,Clinical Practice ,Heart failure ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology ,Medicine ,Cardiac magnetic resonance ,business - Abstract
Although the overall survival of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has improved significantly in the last decades, a non-negligible proportion of DCM patients still shows an unfavorable prognosis. DCM patients not only need imaging techniques that are effective in diagnosis, but also suitable for long-term follow-up with frequent re-evaluations. The exponential growth of echocardiography’s technology and performance in recent years has resulted in improved diagnostic accuracy, stratification, management and follow-up of patients with DCM. This review summarizes some new developments in echocardiography and their promising applications in DCM. Although nowadays cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) remains the gold standard technique in DCM, the echocardiographic advances and novelties proposed in the manuscript, if properly integrated into clinical practice, could bring echocardiography closer to CMR in terms of accuracy and may certify ultrasound as the technique of choice in the follow-up of DCM patients. The application in DCM patients of novel echocardiographic techniques represents an interesting emergent research area for scholars in the near future.
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- 2021