RESEARCH DONE BY SCIENTISTS OF TYUMEN CARDIOLOGY CENTER WAS PRESENTED AT CONGRESS IN AUSTRALIA

The congress is traditionally held triennially. The objectives of such a large meeting are to encourage research, to promote international cooperation and to disseminate scientific information in the field of ultrasound in medicine.

Hands-on workshops, live-demonstration sessions and satellite meetings along with a program specifically for the World Federation of Sonographers have been held within the congress this year.

Prof. Vadim A. Kuznetsov delivered a lecture on using limited hand-carried echocardiography in population screening. He talked about a research done by specialists of Tyumen Cardiology Center whithin which 2,350 subjects in Yamburg settlement (Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, Russia) were examined with a portable ultrasound device.

 
The method of limited echocardiography means  heart examination of limited protocol to accurately and quickly diagnose presence or absence of cardiovascular pathology. To perform this examination portable hand-carried ultrasound devices with similar functional characteristics as in stationary machines can be used. Their transportability and relatively low cost enable to use them in mass examinations of patients with cardiovascular abnormalities. One of the advantages of this method is the possibility of rapid “quick-look” assessment of cardiac function in emergency cases when there is no time to carry out standard echocardiographic examination. Hand-carried echocardiography enables to make diagnosis at the bedside and outside the ultrasound room.

Experiences in the clinical setting have demonstrated that limited echocardiography is the necessary tool for preoperative (to define the group of risk) and postoperative (to detect possible complications) diagnosis. It also can be used for follow-up examination of patients who have undergone such invasive interventions as coronary angiography, transluminal coronary angioplasty, radiofrequency ablation and others.