Advanced Echocardiography Techniques: The Future Stethoscope of Systemic Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been showing patterns of extensive rise in prevalence in the contemporary era, affecting the quality of life of millions of people and leading the causes of death worldwide. It has been a provocative challenge for modern medicine to diagnose CVD in its crib, owing to its etiological factors being attributed to a large array of systemic diseases, as well as its non-binary hideous nature that gradually leads to functional disability. Novel echocardiography techniques have enabled the cardiac ultrasound to provide a comprehensive analysis of the heart in an objective, feasible, time- and cost-effective manner. Speckle tracking echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, and 3D echocardiography have shown the highest potential for widespread use. The uses of n

SUBMITTER: Iskander J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9046647 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature