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Traditional and Advanced Echocardiographic Evaluation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Forgotten Relationship.
American Journal of Cardiology 2024 Februrary 26
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a significant preventable and treatable clinical disorder defined by a persistent, typically progressive airflow obstruction. This disease has a significant negative impact on mortality and morbidity worldwide. However, the complex interaction between the heart and lungs is usually underestimated, necessitating more attention to improve clinical outcomes and prognosis. Indeed, COPD significantly impacts ventricular function, right and left chamber architecture, tricuspid valve functionality, and pulmonary blood vessels. Accordingly, more emphasis should be paid to their diagnosis since cardiac alterations may occur very early before COPD progresses and generate pulmonary hypertension (PH). Echocardiography enables a quick, noninvasive, portable, and accurate assessment of such changes. Indeed, recent advancements in imaging technology have improved the characterization of the heart chambers and made it possible to investigate the association between a few cardiac function indices and clinical and functional aspects of COPD. This review aims to describe the intricate relationship between COPD and heart changes and provide basic and advanced echocardiographic methods to detect early right ventricular and left ventricular morphologic alterations and early systolic and diastolic dysfunction. Additionally, it is crucial to comprehend the clinical and prognostic significance of functional tricuspid regurgitation in COPD and PH and the currently available trans-catheter therapeutic approaches for its treatment. Moreover, it is also essential to assess non-invasively PH and pulmonary resistance in COPD patients by applying new echocardiographic parameters. In conclusion, echocardiography should be employed more frequently in assessing COPD patients since it may aid in discovering previously unrecognized heart abnormalities and selecting the most appropriate treatment to improve the patient's symptoms, quality of life, and survival.
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