The role of echocardiography in acute coronary syndrome

作者：Teodora Stanojlović, Milan Pavlović, Ćirić Snežana, Lazar Todorović, Svetlana Apostolović, Sonja Šalinger-Martinović, M. Peck Radosavljevic, Svetlana Petrović-Nagorni, V Atanaskovic, Vesna Topić · 发表于：Srce i krvni sudovi · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.5937/siks1402087s · 研究领域：Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair、Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments、Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique for the management of patients with chest pain. The challenge for the physicians is to identify patients with atypical symptoms or non-diagnostic electrocardiogram changes. Echocardiography is very useful in triage of patients with acute chest pain or dyspnea. An echocardiogram can also help in defining of localisation and extension of an infarction and in assessing overall function of the left and right ventricules. It has also been used in risk stratification after myocardial infarction and to evaluate reperfusion therapies. In additon, an echocardiogram can help to identify complications, such as acute mitral regurgitation, left ventriculy rupture, pericardiale effusion, intraventricular septum rupture and left ventricular mural thrombus formation. Transthoracic echocardiography provides a quick and cheap bed side method of diagnosis and evaluation patients with acute coronary syndrome.