Stress Doppler echocardiography in valvular heart diseases: utility and assessment.

Aged; Aortic Valve Insufficiency/pathology/ultrasonography; Aortic Valve Stenosis/pathology/ultrasonography; Echocardiography, Doppler/instrumentation/methods; Echocardiography, Stress/instrumentation/methods; Female; Heart Valve Diseases/pathology/ultrasonography; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mitral Valve Stenosis/pathology/ultrasonography; Prognosis; Risk Assessment

Abstract :

[en] This article is a review on the role of stress echocardiography in valvular heart diseases, describing what the validated indications are, how to perform the test and the utility of performing this examination. Most valve diseases are characteristically dynamic and this dynamic component is best appreciated by exercise Doppler echocardiography. Dobutamine stress echocardiography is also useful in patients with severe aortic stenosis and left ventricular dysfunction. The main advantage of stress echocardiography is to concomitantly allow the evaluation of symptoms, exercise capacity and the hemodynamic consequences of valve diseases, especially in patients with severe valve diseases who deny symptoms or present equivocal symptoms. It also provides important prognostic information and may help to optimize surgical timing in difficult cases. Whether these data should be integrated in the management of patients needs further validation.

Disciplines :

Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging

Author, co-author :

O'Connor, Kim

LANCELLOTTI, Patrizio ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Cardiologie

Pierard, Luc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Cardiologie - Pathologie spéciale et réhabilitation

Language :

English

Title :

Stress Doppler echocardiography in valvular heart diseases: utility and assessment.

Publication date :

2010

Journal title :

Future Cardiology

ISSN :

1479-6678

eISSN :

1744-8298

Publisher :

Future Medicine, United Kingdom

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

611-25

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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