How to Do Echo in a Multimodality Approach to Assess the Risk of Sudden Death: A Consensus Statement of the Italian Society of Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Imaging
Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a multiparametric process that integrates the data from family history, clinical evaluation, electrocardiographic findings, arrhythmic burden, and cardiovascular imaging. Echocardiography is the first-line imaging modality for both diagnosis and risk stratification of cardiovascular diseases associated with SCD. Advances in echocardiography and multimodality imaging have identified a number of parameters with proven prognostic value in SCD risk stratification. CMR = Cardiac magnetic resonance, CT = Computed tomography, ECG = Electrocardiogram, ECHO = Echocardiography.
Authors
- Massimo Zecchin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4022-3682)
- Eustachio Agricola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-2187)
- Antonio De Luca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-9075)
- Gianluca Di Bella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8933-9884)
- Thomas Caiffa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-0992)
- Concetta Zito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-4316)
- Jacopo Giulio Rizzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5511-9147)
- Andrea Barison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9042-340X)
- Roberta Manganaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-326X)
- Matteo Cameli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3872-8964)
- Gianfranco Sinagra
- Maurizio Cusmà Piccione
Institutions
- University of Siena (IT)
- University of Messina (IT)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
- IRCCS Materno Infantile Burlo Garofolo (IT)
- Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IT)
- Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio (IT)
- Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Trieste (IT)
- Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San Raffaele (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Cardiovascular Echography
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_50_25
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00