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Ultrasonic Assessment of Myocardial Microstructure
Published on: January 14, 2014
[Modern imaging as a "biomarker": no patient without echocardiography?]
1Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Kardiologie und Angiologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, 10098, Berlin, Deutschland. fabian.knebel@charite.de.
Abstract:
A "biomarker" is measures something quantitatively or qualitatively, and this improves clinical decision-making. Echocardiography is therefore also a "biomarker". It provides information on anatomy, function and haemodynamics. Echocardiography can provide important information for almost all cardiovascular diseases in emergency and intensive care medicine: acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pulmonary embolism, sepsis, endocarditis, stroke, etc. All patients with dyspnea, chest pain, respiratory insufficiency, sepsis and after resuscitation must receive echocardiography. Conventional biomarkers complete the picture here-to enable optimal diagnosis and therapy.
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