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Echocardiography of Right Heart

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A significant part of right heart failure management is the accurate imaging of right heart chambers with the means of conventional echocardiography as well as advanced imaging. Because of the orientation of the right ventricular fibers, global assessment of the RV is difficult, with the two main sections contracting perpendicular to each other: the inflow portion longitudinally and the outflow portion circumferentially. The aim of this review manuscript is to highlight important measurements from two dimensional echocardiography as well as explaining how we implement three dimensional echocardiography as well as speckle tracking into right heart imaging.

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Abbreviations

3D:

Three dimensional

MPI:

Myocardial performance index

RA:

Right atrium

RV:

Right ventricle

TAPSE:

Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion

TDI:

Tissue Doppler imaging

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  1. Department of Imaging, Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Julia Grapsa

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  1. Department of Medicine, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania

    Silviu Ionel Dumitrescu

  2. Department of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Ion C. Ţintoiu

  3. Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong

    Malcolm John Underwood

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Grapsa, J. (2018). Echocardiography of Right Heart. In: Dumitrescu, S., Ţintoiu, I., Underwood, M. (eds) Right Heart Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73764-5_32

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