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Echocardiography is widely available, safe, and the most cost-effective imaging technique for the diagnosis and follow-up of structural and functional abnormalities associated with heart failure. In this chapter, we review the use of different echocardiographic modalities for the state-of-the-art evaluation of patients with heart failure. We describe the most important details of the examination technique and review clinically relevant echocardiographic parameters for the assessment of cardiac morphology and function. The role of echocardiography for guiding pharmacological and device-based heart failure therapy and future trends in this field are also discussed.
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Stankovic, I., Voigt, JU. (2013). Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report. In: Bartunek, J., Vanderheyden, M. (eds) Translational Approach to Heart Failure. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7345-9_4
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