Echocardiography in Anderson-Fabry Disease

Echocardiography is the most common diagnostic tool to screen for Fabry cardiomyopathy as it fast, non-invasive, low-cost, widely available, easily applicable and reproducible. first-line investigation, being useful in all stages of disease: (1) gene-positive patients, unveil signs early cardiac involvement allowing timely treatment; (2) patients with overt estimate severity involvement, possible related complications, effect treatment. Recently, advanced echocardiographic techniques, such speckle tracking analysis, are offering new insights assessment disease differential diagnosis cardiomyopathies hypertrophic phenotype. The aim this review provide a comprehensive overview on structural functional abnormalities described by means echocardiography.