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The role of noninvasive echocardiography techniques in the diagnostics of heart graft complications

Authors: Stavenchuk T.V.1,2, 2, Kosmacheva E.D.1,2, 2, Shelestova I.A.1,2, 2, Barbukhatty K.O. 1,2, 2, Porkhanov V.A.1,2, 2

Company: 1 Professor S.V. Ochapovsky Region Clinical Hospital № 1, Ulitsa Pervogo Maya, 167, Krasnodar, 350086, Russian Federation;
2 Kubanskiy State Medical University of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Ulitsa Sedina, 4, Krasnodar, 350063, Russian Federation

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Type:  New diagnostic techniques in cardiology


DOI: https://doi.org/10.15275/kreatkard.2016.02.07

For citation: Stavenchuk T.V., Kosmacheva E.D., Shelestova I.A. et al. The role of noninvasive echocardiography techniques in the diagnostics of heart graft complications. Kreativnaya Kardiologiya. 2016; 10 (2): 171-183 (in Russian)

Keywords: transthoracic echocardiography heart transplant rejection coronary artery disease technique of speckle tracking echocardiography

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Abstract

The possibility of heart graft rejection and coronary artery disease in patients after heart transplantation persist throughout life, which requires constant monitoring immunosuppressive therapy and identifying early signs of rejection. Introduction of noninvasive and accessible methods of screening in clinical practice will improve early diagnostics of cardiac transplant rejection and long-term prognosis in heart recipients. We are carrying out of noninvasive techniques for the purpose of timely recognition of complications at the stage of subclinical changes, optimization of treatment schemes that will increase the duration and improve the quality of life of recipients. The characteristic of early and late complications of a heart transplant is submitted. This article reflects the modern domestic and foreign data about transthoracic echocardiography, tissue Doppler imaging and technique of speckle tracking echocardiography in diagnostics of early heart transplant rejection and coronary allograft vasculopathy.

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About Authors

  • Stavenchuk Tat'yana Vladimirovna, Ultrasonic Diagnostics Physician, Research Staff of Chair;
  • Kosmacheva Elena Dmitrievna, MD, DM, Professor, Chief of Chair;
  • Shelestova Inga Aleksandrovna, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Chief Physician;
  • Barbukhatti Kirill Olegovich, MD, DM, Professor, Chief of Chair, chief cardiac surgeon of the Krasnodar Territory;
  • Porkhanov Vladimir Alekseevich, MD, DM, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences,
  • Chief of Chair, Chief Thoracic Surgeon of the Krasnodar Territory

Chief Editor

Leo A. Bockeria, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery


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