Echocardiography serves an extremely important role in the diagnosis and management of
patients with heart failure. The various stages of structural and functional changes that
constitute progressive left ventricle remodeling have all been characterized by two-
dimensional echocardiography. In addition, echocardiography has defined the transition
from compensated hypertrophy to left ventricle dilatation and progression to end-stage heart
failure. Echocardiography has also played an important role in clinical heart failure trials of β …