DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Transthoracic echocardiography
Echocardiography
An echocardiogram, often referred to in the medical community as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart (it is not abbreviated as ECG, which in medicine usually refers to an electrocardiogram). Also known as a cardiac ultrasound, it uses standard ultrasound techniques to image two-dimensional slices of the heart. The latest ultrasound systems now employ 3D real-time imaging. In addition to creating two-dimensional pictures of the cardiovascular system, an echocardiogram can also produce accurate assessment of the velocity of blood and cardiac tissue at any arbitrary point using pulsed or continuous wave Doppler ultrasound...
Transthoracic echocardiography - List of case studies
- Sinus Tachycardia in Mitral Insufficiency
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the patient underwent new cardiological visits and echocardiography. A moderate mitral insufficiency (MI) in fibrotic valve ... screening that gave a negative result. A new transthoracic echocardiography confirmed moderate and unchanged MI , normal ...
- List of Examinations
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Doppler (cerebral afferent vessels) Color doppler echocardiography Color doppler ultrasound (proximal seminal duct) ... pathologic examination Ft3 Ft4 Full Doppler transthoracic echocardiogram Full ambulatory MRI Full body Pet scan ...
- Valvular Heart Disease in Dissection of the Ascendant Aorta and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
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daily On 08/2008, a transesophageal Color Doppler Echocardiography was carried out with the following medical report: ... linear image poorly movable not visible at the transthoracic echocardiography and with full filling at the color-Doppler ...