title: The role of echocardiographic study in patients with chronic kidney disease.
abstract: Despite the recent enormous advances in medicine, high mortality and morbidity rates among the chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients remain an important but unresolved issue. Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CKD. Abnormal left ventricular geometry and functions are common in this patient group and have been proven to be correlated with a high cardiovascular mortality/morbidity and all-cause mortality. For this reason, echocardiographic study plays an important role in evaluating cardiac structure and functions as well as in stratifying prognostic risk. We here summarize the reported findings on the usefulness of echocardiographic methodologies and identify their roles in diagnostic and prognostic clinical approaches.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yen-Wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Chi-Ting
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioscience Technology, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Eing-Ju
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wei-Chuan
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yi-Heng
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Liang-Miin
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Jyh-Hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: jmsung@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Junne-Ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sung
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: cardiac function; chronic kidney disease; echocardiography; prognosis; systolic longitudinal strain