Pulse-Cancellation Echocardiography for Clinical Evaluation of Myocardial Scar Burden.
Nicola GaibazziDomenico TuttolomondoAndrea Igoren GuaricciGiovanna Di GiannuarioPublished in: Current cardiology reports (2021)
The use of a simple and clinically available ultrasound, such as method pulse-cancellation, is a promising add-on to standard echocardiography for the detection of scarred myocardial tissue, mostly, but not only, in the setting of post-myocardial infarction patients. Pulse-cancellation technique, available since at least 20 years ago on commercial ultrasound machines, is reasonably accurate to detect myocardial scar tissue caused by recent or prior myocardial infarction, the accuracy varying depending on the spatial distribution of myocardial scars in the left ventricle. Severe myocardial fibers disarray, as found in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, can also be detected by this ultrasound method.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- mitral valve
- heart failure
- blood pressure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- pulmonary hypertension
- newly diagnosed
- high resolution
- early onset
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery
- mass spectrometry
- congenital heart disease
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- quantum dots