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Last reviewed 01/2018
- flow across valves and atrial or ventricular septal defects can be determined and quantified
- cardiomegaly: the use of 2D echocardiography (a picture of a two-dimensional fan-shaped plane) may demonstrate focal and global hypokinesia, aneurysms, and pericardial effusions
- vegetations and mural thrombi: these may be shown using echocardiography
- muscular hypertrophy
- morphology of valves and aortic root
- severity from doppler measurement of velocity
- aortic and mitral regurgitation - severity deduced from left ventricles and left atrium dimensions and size of regurgitant jet on colour flow mapping
- aortic and mitral stenosis - severity deduced from velocity of blood flow across the valve