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Where is the right ventricle? Accurate diagnosis with cardiovascular multimodality imaging
Author(s) -
Güner Ahmet,
Topel Çağdaş,
Cansever Aysel Türkvatan,
Güner Ezgi Gültekin,
Tüfekcioğlu Omaç,
Ertürk Mehmet,
Güler Gamze Babür
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.14606
Subject(s) - medicine , endomyocardial fibrosis , ventricle , cardiology , fibrosis , radiology
Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a globally unattended disease with significant rates of morbidity and mortality. It has a higher prevalence in tropical and subtropical countries compared to the rest of the world. Endomyocardial fibrosis can affect the atrioventricular valves, along with all four chambers of the heart, but spares the myocardium. Patients currently undergo symptomatic treatment with diuretics and vasodilators to enhance quality of life, although medical therapy alone is associated with poor prognosis. Hence, patients with severe symptoms prefer surgical treatment. Modern multimodality imaging, however, can help these definitions to be made more accurately.