applications of echocardiography
Last reviewed 01/2018
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
echocardiography in aortic dissection
echocardiography in aortic stenosis
echocardiography in aortic regurgitation
echocardiography in dilated cardiomyopathy
echocardiography in heart failure
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