Applications of echocardiography
Echocardiography is useful in the following situations:
- valve stenosis or regurgitation
- aortic aneurysm and dissection
- prosthetic heart valve
- heart failure
- pericardial effusion
- masses within the heart
- ischaemic heart disease
- congenital heart disease
Related pages
- Echocardiography in aortic dissection
- Echocardiography in aortic stenosis
- Echocardiography in aortic regurgitation
- Echocardiography in dilated cardiomyopathy
- Echocardiography in heart failure
- Echocardiography in HOCM
- Echocardiography in infective endocarditis
- Echocardiography in mitral stenosis
- Echocardiography in mitral regurgitation
- Echocardiography in myocardial infarction
- Echocardiography in pericardial effusion
- Echocardiography of prosthetic heart valves
- Diagram of echo in left atrial myxoma
- Diagram of echo in flail posterior mitral leaflet
- Diagram of echo in mitral valve prolapse
- Diagram of normal mitral valve on echo
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