Familial Mediterranean fever echocardiography and ultrasound
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sahar Memar Montazerin, M.D.[2]
Overview
Overview
There are no echocardiography/ultrasound findings associated with familial Mediterranean fever. However, echocardiography/ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications, including pericardial effusion, pleural effusion, and hepatosplenomegaly.
Echocardiography/Ultrasound
- There are no echocardiography/ultrasound findings associated with familial Mediterranean fever. However, echocardiography/ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of familial Mediterranean fever, which include:[1]
- A recent study comparing the cardiac functions in FMF patients and healthy controls using tissue Doppler imaging has observed impaired left ventricular diastolic function indices in FMF patients.[2]
- Other non-specific findings which have been found on the ultrasound imaging of patients with FMF include:[3]
- Peritoneal fluid
- Enlarged kidneys
- Hyperechoic kidneys
- Lymphadenopathy
- Peritoneal cysts
- Dilated bowel loops
- cholelithiasis
- Cholecystitis
- Cavernous malformation of the portal vein
- Terminal ileitis
- Segmental infarct of the kidney
- Bleeding from a ruptured renal cyst
- Incidental ovarian dermoid cyst.
Editor(s)-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson M.S., M.D. [1] Phone:617-525-6884 ; Eli V. Gelfand, M.D. [2]
Overview
Echocardiography
- Echocardiography (echo) is a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of your heart. The picture shows how well your heart is working and its size and shape. There are several types of echo, including stress echo.
- Stress echo can show whether you have decreased blood flow to your heart, a sign of coronary heart disease. Another type of echo is transesophageal (tranz-ih-sof-uh-JEE-ul) echo, or TEE.
- TEE provides a view of the back of the heart. For this test, a sound wave wand is put on the end of a special tube. The tube is gently passed down your throat and into your esophagus (the passage leading from your mouth to your stomach). Because this passage is right behind the heart,
General Principles of Echocardiography
- Basic physical principles of ultrasound
- Quantification of pressure gradients
- Echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular dyssynchrony
- Echocardiography terminology
- Guidelines for echocardiography
Principal Echocardiographic Modalities
- Transthoracic echo (TTE): standard views and measurements
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE): standard views
- M-mode echo: principles and classic findings
- Doppler echocardiography
- Tissue Doppler imaging
- Contrast echocardiography
- Stress echocardiography
- Three-dimensional echocardiography
- Myocardial contrast echocardiography
- Intraoperative echocardiography
Echocardiographic Diagnosis and Evaluation of Specific Cardiovascular Disorders
- Echo in emergencies
- Echo in coronary artery disease
- Echo in pericardial diseases: effusion, cardiac tamponade, constriction
- Echo in dilated cardiomyopathies
- Echo in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Echo in restrictive cardiomyopathies
- Echo in pulmonary hypertension
- Echo in pulmonary embolism
- Endocarditis (TTE and TEE)
- Echo in patients with atrial fibrillation
- Echo in cardiac tumors and masses
- Echo in diseases of the aorta
- Echo in congenital heart disease
- Echo in non-cardiac systemic disease
Miscellaneous
References
References
References
- ↑ Ishak GE, Khoury NJ, Birjawi GA, El-Zein YR, Naffaa LN, Haddad MC (2006). “Imaging findings of familial Mediterranean fever”. Clin Imaging. 30 (3): 153–9. doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2005.07.002. PMID 16632148.
- ↑ Baysal, Tamer; Peru, Harun; Oran, Bulent; Sahin, Tahir Kemal; Koksal, Yavuz; Karaaslan, Sevim (2008). “Left ventricular diastolic function evaluated with tissue Doppler imaging in children with familial Mediterranean fever”. Clinical Rheumatology. 28 (1): 23–28. doi:10.1007/s10067-008-0976-z. ISSN 0770-3198.
- ↑ Aharoni, D.; Hiller, N.; Hadas-Halpern, I. (2000). “Familial Mediterranean fever: abdominal imaging findings in 139 patients and review of the literature”. Abdominal Imaging. 25 (3): 297–300. doi:10.1007/s002610000006. ISSN 0942-8925.
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