Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a point-of-care, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the clinician at the ...

Although more-refined techniques based on nuclear magnetic resonance are available, quantitative echocardiography is currently the most frequently used means of evaluating abnormalities in left ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of left ...