Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

Roberto M Lang; Luigi P Badano; Victor Mor-Avi; Jonathan Afilalo; Anderson Armstrong; Laura Ernande; Frank A Flachskampf; Elyse Foster; Steven A Goldstein; Tatiana Kuznetsova; Patrizio Lancellotti; Denisa Muraru; Michael H Picard; Ernst R Rietzschel; Lawrence Rudski; Kirk T Spencer; Wendy Tsang; Jens-Uwe Voigt

doi:10.1016/j.echo.2014.10.003

Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2015 Jan;28(1):1-39.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.10.003.

Authors

Roberto M Lang¹, Luigi P Badano², Victor Mor-Avi¹, Jonathan Afilalo³, Anderson Armstrong⁴, Laura Ernande⁵, Frank A Flachskampf⁶, Elyse Foster⁷, Steven A Goldstein⁸, Tatiana Kuznetsova⁹, Patrizio Lancellotti¹⁰, Denisa Muraru², Michael H Picard¹¹, Ernst R Rietzschel¹², Lawrence Rudski³, Kirk T Spencer¹, Wendy Tsang¹³, Jens-Uwe Voigt⁹

Affiliations

¹ University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
² University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
³ Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁴ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ INSERM U955 and Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
⁶ Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁷ University of California, San Francisco, California.
⁸ Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia.
⁹ University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁰ University of Liège Hospital, Liège, Belgium.
¹¹ Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹² Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
¹³ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 25559473
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.10.003

Abstract

The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need for updated recommendations to the previously published guidelines for cardiac chamber quantification, which was the goal of the joint writing group assembled by the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. This document provides updated normal values for all four cardiac chambers, including three-dimensional echocardiography and myocardial deformation, when possible, on the basis of considerably larger numbers of normal subjects, compiled from multiple databases. In addition, this document attempts to eliminate several minor discrepancies that existed between previously published guidelines.

Keywords: Adult echocardiography; Normal values; Transthoracic echocardiography; Ventricular function.

MeSH terms

Adult
Echocardiography / standards*
Europe
Female
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Stroke Volume*
United States
Ventricular Dysfunction / diagnostic imaging*