Tips to avoid foreshortening in echocardiography
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Foreshortening, echocardiogram, apical shortening, errors in echocardiographyAbstract
Foreshortening or apical shortening is one of the most frequent errors in daily echocardiography practice. The selection of a study plane in apical planes that does not actually pass through the strict ventricular apex results in falsely shortened planes that lead to errors in the assessment of ventricular size and function and make it impossible to assess the alterations affecting the true apex. In this brief article we review the tricks that should be known to avoid it.
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RM Lang, LP Badano, V MorAvi, J Afilalo, A Armstrong, L Ernande et al. Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2015; 28:1-39 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2014.10.003
Ünlü E, Duchenne J, a Mirea O, Efstathios D et al fotr the EACVI-ASE Industry Standardization Task Force. Impact of apical foreshortening on deformation measurements: a report from the EACVI-ASE Strain Standardization Task Force, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging 2020; 21:337-343 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jez189
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