Cardiac Imaging in Heart Failure with Comorbidities.

Cardiac Imaging in Heart Failure with Comorbidities. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2016 Aug 3; Authors: Iyngkaran P, Wong C, Chen S Abstract Imaging modalities stand at the frontiers for progress in congestive heart failure (CHF) screening, risk stratification and monitoring. Advancements in echocardiography (ECHO) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have allowed for improved tissue characterizations, cardiac motion analysis, and cardiac performance under stress. Common cardiac comorbidities such as hypertension, metabolic syndromes and chronic renal failure contribute to cardiac remodeling, sharing similar pathophysiological mechanisms starting with interstitial changes, structural changes and finally clinical CHF. These novel imaging techniques can potentially detect changes earlier. Such information could have clinical benefits for screening, planning preventive therapies and risk stratifying CHF for more advanced therapies. For a long period imaging reports have focused on traditional measures without factoring these additional parameters, particularly in the context of concomitant comorbidities. This review is aimed at providing a synopsis of the key physiological factors behind cardiac imaging findings, key findings for common comorbidities and finally how we can use this information to track improvements of CHF with comorbidities. PMID: 27492227 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Cardiology Reviews - Category: Cardiology Tags: Curr Cardiol Rev Source Type: research