Abstract Liver elastography (LE) assesses the systemic consequences of heart failure (HF). This method may help in the prognostic assessment of patients with HF. HF can secondarily affect the function of various organs and systems, especially the liver, through venous congestion. The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative review of the importance of LE in the complementary evaluation of HF. The hepatic consequences of cardiac disease are sometimes silent, without significant changes in physical examination and/or laboratory […]

Abstract Echocardiography is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Assessing left ventricle diastolic function is a major challenge, and several well-known ultrasound techniques, such as pulsed Doppler for mitral flow, tissue Doppler, and myocardial strain, are used to non-invasively estimate left atrial filling pressure. Although widely available, this approach has several limitations and does not truly represent the intrinsic properties of the cardiac muscle. However, cardiac elastography can be studied non-invasively by estimating myocardial stiffness through shear […]