1. Echocardiography update for primary care physicians: a review
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Jeffrey Sk Chan, Hang Zhao, CN Jin, Yiting Fan, Gary Tse, Kevin Ka-Ho Kam, Alex Pw Lee, and XX Luo
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Primary Health Care ,business.industry ,Cardiology ,Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional ,Primary health care ,Interventional management ,Heart ,Primary care ,medicine.disease ,Appropriate use ,Intracardiac injection ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Echocardiography ,Heart failure ,Humans ,Medicine ,business ,Intensive care medicine - Abstract
Echocardiography is a key evaluation tool for the diagnosis, prognosis, and guidance of interventional management of numerous cardiovascular conditions, including ischaemia, heart failure, and structural heart diseases. Recent technological advancements have also seen the exploration of artificial intelligence, intracardiac vortex imaging, and three-dimensional printing in echocardiography. With cardiovascular diseases increasing in prevalence worldwide, it is important for clinicians including general practitioners to have updated knowledge of appropriate use of echocardiography. As such, this article reviews the current literature and summarises the latest developments and the general clinical usage of echocardiography.
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- 2020