Coronary flow reserve in stress-echo lab. From pathophysiologic toy to diagnostic tool

被引：89

作者：

Rigo F. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Department of Cardiology, Umberto I Hospital Mestre, Venice

来源：

Cardiovascular Ultrasound | / 3卷 / 1期

关键词：

Wall Motion; Coronary Flow; Coronary Flow Reserve; Regional Wall Motion; Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve;

D O I：

10.1186/1476-7120-3-8

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摘要：

The assessment of coronary flow reserve by transthoracic echocardiography has recently been introduced into clinical practice with gratifying results for the diagnosis of left anterior descending artery disease simultaneously reported by several independent laboratories. This technological novelty is changing the practice of stress echo for 3 main reasons. First, adding coronary flow reserve to regional wall motion allows us to have - in the same sitting - high specificity (regional wall motion) and a high sensitivity (coronary flow reserve) diagnostic marker, with an obvious improvement in overall diagnostic accuracy. Second, the technicalities of coronary flow reserve shift the balance of stress choice in favour of vasodilators, which are a more robust hyperemic stress and are substantially easier to perform with dual imaging than dobutamine or exercise. Third, the coronary flow reserve adds a quantitative support to the exquisitely qualitative assessment of wall motion analysis, thereby facilitating the communication of stress echo results to the cardiological world outside the echo lab. The next challenges involve the need to expand the exploration of coronary flow reserve to the right and circumflex coronary artery and to prove the additional prognostic value - if any - of coronary flow reserve over regional wall motion analysis, which remains the cornerstone of clinically-driven diagnosis in the stress echo lab. © 2005 Rigo; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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