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EchocardiographyEchocardiography, TransesophagealEchocardiography, Three-DimensionalEchocardiography, DopplerEchocardiography, Doppler, ColorUltrasonography, DopplerEchocardiography, StressEchocardiography, Doppler, PulsedUltrasonography, Doppler, ColorBlood Flow VelocityDoppler EffectUltrasonography, Doppler, PulsedDobutamineVentricular Function, LeftRegional Blood FlowMitral ValveVentricular Dysfunction, LeftUltrasonography, Doppler, TranscranialHeart VentriclesStroke VolumeDiastoleSensitivity and SpecificitySystoleCoronary CirculationPredictive Value of TestsHeart DiseasesObserver VariationMitral Valve InsufficiencyCardiac CatheterizationProspective StudiesHeart AtriaPulsatile FlowHeart Septal Defects, AtrialUltrasonography, PrenatalHeart Valve DiseasesMyocardial ContractionReproducibility of ResultsHeart Defects, CongenitalFetal HeartHemodynamicsContrast MediaElectrocardiographyLaser-Doppler FlowmetryExercise TestAortic ValveTricuspid Valve InsufficiencyFeasibility StudiesHeart NeoplasmsCardiotonic AgentsFlow CytometryTricuspid ValveHeart SeptumEchocardiography, Four-DimensionalAortic Valve StenosisHeart Valve ProsthesisVentricular Function, RightHeartAtrial Function, LeftHypertrophy, Left VentricularMitral Valve StenosisCardiomyopathiesBlood PressureDipyridamoleHeart FailureMyocardial InfarctionCardiac VolumeVentricular Dysfunction, RightMyocardial IschemiaAortic Valve InsufficiencyTime FactorsMitral Valve ProlapseCoronary AngiographyVentricular RemodelingFollow-Up StudiesCoronary DiseaseHeart MurmursUltrasonographyCardiac OutputUmbilical ArteriesCardiomyopathy, HypertrophicPulmonary ArteryHeart Septal Defects, VentricularPericardial EffusionCardiomyopathy, DilatedMyocardiumPregnancyTreatment OutcomeFluorocarbonsHeart Valve Prosthesis ImplantationHypertension, PulmonaryVascular ResistanceHeart RateHeart Function TestsCardiac Surgical ProceduresSeverity of Illness IndexHeart AneurysmRheologyAtrial AppendageImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedEmbolism
Transthoracic echocardiographyTissue Doppler echocardiographyStress echocardiographyTransesophageal echocardiographyVelocitiesVenousProximal isovelocity surface areaAmerican Society of EchocEchocardiogramVelocityFetal echocardiographyNoninvasiveUltrasonographySystolicUltrasound of the heartDimensional echocardiographyVentricleCoronaryAssessmentDiagnosisSpectral DopplerCongenitalHemodynamicTricuspid valveAtrialColourImagingContinuous-waveDiastoleRatioEchocardiographic studiesWeeks of gestatCitationIntracardiacParametersMethodsCardiovascularMeasurementRegurgitant fractionHeartColor flowAscending aortaFunctionClinicalDysfunctionMeasures
Transthoracic echocardiography4
Tissue Doppler echocardiography2
  • Tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE) is a medical ultrasound technology, specifically a form of echocardiography that measures the velocity of the heart muscle (myocardium) through the phases of one or more heartbeats by the Doppler effect (frequency shift) of the reflected ultrasound. (wikipedia.org)
  • The presence of fragmented QRS (fQRS) morphology, P dispersion, QT dispersion, inter- and intraatrial electromechanical delay was evaluated in the groups with 12-lead ECG and standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography. (tubitak.gov.tr)
Stress echocardiography9
  • In the last 10 years, stress echocardiography has reached its established rank in the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease. (escardio.org)
  • These guidelines conclude that nuclear cardiology and stress echocardiography provide comparable information on diagnosis accuracy for noninvasive detection of coronary disease, identification of myocardial viability and prognostic stratification. (escardio.org)
  • In the last 5 years, a major innovation changed the face and the diagnostic content of stress echocardiography: dual imaging of wall motion and coronary flow reserve with pulsed-Doppler imaging of the middistal left anterior descending coronary artery. (escardio.org)
  • Imaging coronary flow reserve expands the prognostic potential of stress echocardiography, since in the absence of wall motion negativity, the patient subset with reduced coronary flow reserve also have a more malignant prognosis. (escardio.org)
  • Although coronary flow reserve in a technology-in-progress and has yet to reach its full maturity, it is now considered a new standard in the clinical application of stress echocardiography. (escardio.org)
  • The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of fast (or atropine-potentiated) high-dose dipyridamole is identical to dobutamine stress echocardiography, as shown by this meta-analysis including five studies with 435 patients. (escardio.org)
  • Non-invasive assessment of myocardial ischaemia using new real-time three-dimensional dobutamine stress echocardiography: comparison with conventional two-dimensional methods. (meduniver.com)
  • Know the indications for stress echocardiography and the appropriate selection of exercise versus pharmacologic modalities. (acc.org)
  • Skill to perform and interpret stress echocardiography. (acc.org)
Transesophageal echocardiography4
Velocities6
  • The technique is the same as for flow Doppler echocardiography measuring flow velocities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The discriminating power of each of the standard Doppler indexes of left ventricular filling, pulmonary venous flow, and myocardial velocities was determined with the use of Spearman rank correlation and analysis of variance F statistics. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Myocardial velocities assessed by Doppler tissue echocardiography are useful in differentiating patients with normal from those with abnormal diastolic function. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Several studies have shown that in the presence of a significant coronary stenosis, the ratio between the diastolic and systolic coronary blood flow velocities, diastolic-to-systolic velocity ratio (DSVR), is significantly reduced when invasively measured distally to the stenosis. (thoracickey.com)
  • The wall shear stress (WSS) was measured based on the same acquisitions, by analyzing blood flow velocities close to the carotid walls. (frontiersin.org)
  • using tissue Doppler velocities. (frontiersin.org)
Venous6
  • Alterations in the normal hepatic venous Doppler waveform often indicate cardiac dysfunction, although it may also reflect disease of the hepatic parenchyma and/or vasculature. (radiopaedia.org)
  • Objective -To determine the influence of age, body weight (BW), heart rate (HR), sex, and left ventricular shortening fraction (LVSF) on transmitral and pulmonary venous flow in clinically normal dogs. (avma.org)
  • Procedure -Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography recordings of transmitral flow and pulmonary venous flow were obtained in conscious unsedated dogs. (avma.org)
  • Echocardiographic variables of diastolic function (isovolumic relaxation time [IVRT], early LV flow propagation velocity [Vp], transmitral and pulmonary venous flow velocity indices, and LV tissue Doppler imaging indices) were measured simultaneously over a range of hemodynamic states induced by treatments with esmolol, dobutamine, cilobradine, and volume loading. (avma.org)
  • and IVRT, peak Vp, peak late transmitral flow velocity, and peak systolic pulmonary venous flow velocity. (avma.org)
  • Pulmonary venous Doppler (PVD) patterns are abnormal in fetuses with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) with restricted foramen ovale (rFO) when compared with healthy fetuses. (bmj.com)
Proximal isovelocity surface area1
  • Comparison of orifice area by transthoracic three-dimensional Doppler echocardiography versus proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) method for assessment of mitral regurgitation. (meduniver.com)
American Society of Echoc1
Echocardiogram5
  • comprehensive 2D and Doppler echocardiogram. (auntminnie.com)
  • Color Doppler echocardiogram. (medscape.com)
  • Echocardiography (also known as echocardiogram) is a non-invasive ultrasound procedure used to assess the heart's function and structures. (upmc.com)
  • Plumas District Hospital offers non-invasive doppler ultrasound and echocardiogram testing to assess heart function and blood flow through major arteries and veins. (pdh.org)
  • A Doppler ultrasound is part of an echocardiogram, which is a test that shows the size and shape of your heart and how well it's pumping blood. (medlineplus.gov)
Velocity14
  • The terms tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and tissue velocity imaging (TVI) are usually synonymous with TDE because echocardiography is the main use of tissue Doppler. (wikipedia.org)
  • While pulsed Doppler only acquires the velocity at one point at a time, colour Doppler can acquire simultaneous pixel velocity values across the whole imaging field. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] During the two filling phases, there is early (E) and late (A) blood flow from the atrium to the ventricle, corresponding to the annular velocity phases. (wikipedia.org)
  • In light diastolic dysfunction, the peak early mitral flow velocity E is reduced in proportion to the e', but if relaxation is so reduced that it causes increase in atrial pressure, E will increase again, while e', being less load dependent, remains low. (wikipedia.org)
  • Effective regurgitant orifice area was calculated by Doppler echocardiography as the ratio of regurgitant volume/regurgitant jet time-velocity integral and compared with color flow Doppler mapping, angiography, surgical classification, regurgitant fraction and variables of volume overload. (nih.gov)
  • The aim of this study was to determine whether poststenotic diastolic-to-systolic velocity ratio (DSVR) assessed by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography could accurately identify significant stenoses in the left coronary artery. (thoracickey.com)
  • Body weight significantly influenced DT E ( r = 0.63), late diastolic flow duration ( r= 0.60), and AR duration ( r= 0.47), whereas HR significantly affected DT E ( r = -0.34), IVRT ( r = -0.33), and peak velocity of AR ( r = 0.24). (avma.org)
  • A significant correlation was found between LVEDP and early diastolic transmitral flow velocity (peak E) and the ratio of peak E to peak Vp, but not between LVEDP and peak Vp. (avma.org)
  • S/D ratio, velocity time integral of forward (VTI f ) and reversed (VTI r ) flows and VTI r expressed as percentage of VTI f (%R) were calculated. (bmj.com)
  • Switch the color Doppler and place the gate precisely on the brightest point to get peak velocity. (thieme-connect.de)
  • Since fibrous continuity exists between the mitral and aortic valves, the aortic flow is seen in the mitral wave flow velocity waveform in the opposite direction. (thieme-connect.de)
  • In addition, significant positive effects could be confirmed on absolute and predicted peak oxygen consumption, oxygen consumption at the individual aerobic-anaerobic threshold, oxygen pulse, as well as left atrial size, and transmitral flow patterns (mean early diastolic lengthening velocity and the ratio of peak early Doppler mitral inflow velocity to this lengthening velocity). (ersjournals.com)
  • Using color doppler echocardiography, the ventricular systolic peak velocity (SV), atrial systolic trough (aV), pulse index (PD and resistance index (RI) were measured, and the ratio of ventricular systolic peak velocity trough ratio (S/a) from ultrasonic standard section was calculated. (researchgate.net)
  • In lateral and septal, the ratio of the early transmitral flow velocity to the early diastolic tissue velocity (E/Em) was significantly higher in the study group. (tubitak.gov.tr)
Fetal echocardiography2
Noninvasive2
  • Calculation of effective regurgitant orifice area is a noninvasive Doppler development of an old hemodynamic concept, allowing assessment of the lesion severity of valvular regurgitation. (nih.gov)
  • Echocardiography is considered the most reliable noninvasive test to establish the diagnosis, assess cardiac function, and exclude associated structural heart disease. (medscape.com)
Ultrasonography2
Systolic9
  • One of the main advantages of tissue Doppler is that diastolic and systolic function can be measured by the same tool. (wikipedia.org)
  • Normal coronary arteries display a predominant diastolic blood flow pattern, which is less marked in the distal right coronary artery (RCA), probably because of lower intramyocardial systolic contraction pressure in the right ventricle. (thoracickey.com)
  • This reduction is postulated to be caused by a combined poststenotic decrease of diastolic flow and an increased systolic flow from an intramyocardial systolic contraction pump acting on the intramyocardial capacitance vessels. (thoracickey.com)
  • Some prefer the term "periodic" since the term "triphasic" already has a specific application in arterial spectral Doppler waveforms and since "periodic" suggests that the waveform is transmitted by cardiac motion rather than systolic flow. (radiopaedia.org)
  • The effect of chordae tendineae on systolic flow. (uib.no)
  • 3. Buck T, Hunold P, Wentz KU, Tkalec W, Nesser HJ, Erbel R. Tomographic three-dimensional echocardiographic determination of chamber size and systolic function in patients with left ventricular aneurysm: comparison to magnetic resonance imaging, cineventriculography, and two-dimensional echocardiography. (meduniver.com)
  • Know the methods to evaluate cardiac chamber sizes, left and right ventricular systolic and diastolic function, and hemodynamics by echocardiography. (acc.org)
  • Nonetheless, a recent review has highlighted the disconnect between Doppler echo measurements and true diastolic properties of the left ventricle, and has questioned the prevailing assumption that HF with preserved systolic function is always caused by diastolic dysfunction. (bmj.com)
  • 11) Assessment of systolic left ventricular function: a multi-centre comparison of cineventriculography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, unenhanced and contrast-enhanced echocardiography. (bracco.com)
Ultrasound of the heart2
  • When used with ultrasound of the heart or for measuring blood flow, SonoVue is injected intravenously (into a vein) before the test is carried out, as a 2 or 2.4 ml dose depending on which test is being carried out. (europa.eu)
  • After these dogs have been flagged as possible sufferers of the problem, diagnosis is best achieved through simple chest X-rays (which almost always demonstrate an enlargement in the right side of the heart) and echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart) with doppler (demonstrating the flow of blood) to elucidate the abnormal change in the dimensions of the heart and the blood flow through it. (embracepetinsurance.com)
Dimensional echocardiography19
Ventricle5
  • The flow, is driven by the pressure difference between atrium and ventricle, this pressure difference is both a function of the pressure drop during early relaxation and the initial atrial pressure. (wikipedia.org)
  • Automated Segmentation of the Right Ventricle in 3D Echocardiography: A Kalman Filter State Estimation Approach. (uib.no)
  • Waveform: diastolic blood flow coming into the ventricle is seen as two waves. (thieme-connect.de)
  • The first wave is the E wave, which represents early diastolic ventricular filling because of the passive flow of blood from the left atrium into the left ventricle. (thieme-connect.de)
  • During echocardiographic examination, respiration induces cyclic physiological changes of intracardiac haemodynamics, causing normal variations of the right and left ventricle Doppler inflows and outflows and physiological variation of extracardiac flows. (biomedcentral.com)
Coronary4
  • Background--Adenosine-assisted transthoracic Doppler-derived coronary flow reserve (TDE-CFR) reflects coronary vascular function. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Other testing options are therefore important in the selection for coronary angiography and to distinguish functionally significant from nonsignificant coronary stenoses, with fractional flow reserve as a probable reference for the functional evaluation of a coronary stenosis. (thoracickey.com)
  • Modern high-end echocardiographic equipment permits excellent imaging of coronary artery blood flow, allowing measurements of coronary blood flow profiles. (thoracickey.com)
  • The combination of conventional wall motion analysis with 2D echocardiography and coronary flow reserve with pulsed Doppler flowmetry of the mid-distal left anterior descending artery has been shown to provide an added and complementary power of prognostication in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. (escardio.org)
Assessment4
  • Two-dimensional (2D) transthoracic, color, and Doppler echocardiography have become preferred imaging techniques in the diagnosis and assessment of aortic regurgitation. (medscape.com)
  • Assessment of the severity of valvular regurgitation (effective regurgitant orifice area) has not been implemented in clinical practice but can be made by Doppler echocardiography. (nih.gov)
  • Use of the normal data and the Doppler techniques described in this study will allow confident assessment of diastolic function in children as well as in adults. (nih.gov)
  • Doppler echocardiography is ideally suited for assessment of diastolic function, being widely available, non-invasive, and less expensive than other techniques. (bmj.com)
Diagnosis4
  • Echocardiography, as one of most important modality in the acute setting, rapidly and widely available, has significant utility in the diagnosis and management, and is also used for risk stratification and prognosis of ACS patients. (hindawi.com)
  • The respiration related hemodynamic variation in intra and extracardiac flows may be utilized in the echocardiography laboratory to aid diagnosis in different pathological states. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conclusion: The performance of color Doppler flow imaging of normal fetal DV showed that the blood flow peak speed is increased along with the increase of gestational age and PI, RI and S/a are reduced with the increase of gestational age, and RI has the largest decline, which has important diagnosis value. (researchgate.net)
  • The diagnosis of hs-PDA was made by echocardiography using two-dimensional color Doppler (Vivid-i, GE Healthcare), carried out by a pediatric cardiologist who was blinded to the study treatment groups. (who.int)
Spectral Doppler7
  • The hepatic veins have a characteristic spectral Doppler waveform. (radiopaedia.org)
  • The shape of the hepatic vein spectral Doppler waveform is primarily determined by pressure changes in the right atrium, or more exactly the blood flow resulting from the resultant pressure gradients. (radiopaedia.org)
  • 1. Scheinfeld M, Bilali A, Koenigsberg M. Understanding the Spectral Doppler Waveform of the Hepatic Veins in Health and Disease. (radiopaedia.org)
  • Despite newer techniques like tissue Doppler and speckle tracking, the need for a spectral Doppler still exists. (thieme-connect.de)
  • Fig. 1 Correct technique for gate placement for mitral valve spectral Doppler (color Doppler is switched off for better understanding of the position). (thieme-connect.de)
  • Spectral Doppler. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Then a computer turns the images into a graph, as in spectral Doppler. (medlineplus.gov)
Congenital2
  • Echocardiography may also be used to study congenital heart defects such as a septal defect (a hole in the wall that separates the two chambers of the heart). (imaginis.com)
  • Eisenmenger syndrome refers to any untreated congenital cardiac defect with intracardiac communication that leads to pulmonary hypertension, reversal of flow, and cyanosis. (medscape.com)
Hemodynamic2
Tricuspid valve1
Atrial1
  • PVD flow patterns are abnormal in HLHS even in the absence of rFO, suggesting that factors other than impaired left atrial egress play a role. (bmj.com)
Colour2
  • Quantification of aortic regurgitation using high-pulse repetition frequency three-dimensional colour Doppler. (uib.no)
  • Cross-section echocardiography and diovascular death during the first 5 decades colour Doppler evaluation were performed of life in developing countries [ 2,8,9 ]. (who.int)
Imaging10
  • Severity can also be evaluated by estimating the regurgitant fraction by flow measurement in the ascending aorta using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). (medscape.com)
  • In USA, exercise echocardiography is based on the posttreadmill approach with imaging at rest and as soon as possible during the recovery period. (escardio.org)
  • Ischemic effect is the requiqite for functional imaging, usually with2D echocardiography but also performed with cardiovascular magnetic resonance. (escardio.org)
  • Comparison of ultrasound vector flow imaging and CFD simulations with PIV measurements of flow in a left ventricular outflow trackt phantom - Implications for clinical use and in silico studies. (uib.no)
  • To compare the carotid stiffness and flow parameters by ultrafast ultrasound imaging (UF), in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) patients to first-degree relatives (controls). (frontiersin.org)
  • The arterial diameter change over the cardiac cycle was obtained by UF-Doppler imaging. (frontiersin.org)
  • CMS received a request to delete the national noncoverage of blood flow measurement from the Magnetic Resonance Imaging NCD at 220.2 of the NCD Manual and thus permit local Medicare contractor discretion to cover this use under 220.2(D). The requestor points to an apparent contradiction between this noncoverage provision and the national coverage of magnetic resonance imaging under the Magnetic Resonance Angiography NCD at 220.3 of the NCD Manual. (cms.gov)
  • Color Doppler imaging. (embracepetinsurance.com)
  • A Doppler ultrasound is a type of ultrasound imaging test that uses sound waves to show how well your blood flows through your blood vessels. (medlineplus.gov)
  • [ 2 ] Echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging have been reported to be comparable in their ability to differentiate RCM from constrictive paricarditis. (medscape.com)
Continuous-wave9
  • BONAGURA, J. D., MILLER, M. W. and DARKE, P. G. G.(1998) Doppler echocardiography I. Pulsed wave and continuous-wave examinations. (embracepetinsurance.com)
  • A "continuous wave" Doppler can record very fast blood flow, but it can't show the exact location in the blood vessel. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In the next slide, you can see the same area being interrogated with continuous-wave Doppler. (medscape.com)
  • I am showing you a continuous-wave Doppler in the short axis around the aortic-valve level. (medscape.com)
  • In the next slide, there is a continuous-wave Doppler through the aortic valve. (medscape.com)
  • You can see the opening and closing of the mechanical aortic and the mechanical mitral valve because of the location of the continuous-wave Doppler going through both the aortic prosthesis and the "anterior" prosthesis of the mitral valve. (medscape.com)
  • The continuous-wave Doppler for the mitral valve did not demonstrate any mitral gurgitation signal. (medscape.com)
  • Well, let's take another look at a continuous-wave Doppler that I already showed you through the aortic valve. (medscape.com)
  • Then you have the isovolumic contraction period, and then the aortic valve click demonstrating the aortic valve opening, followed by the ejection period, during which you have the continuous-wave Doppler signal through the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) and the aorta. (medscape.com)
Diastole1
Ratio2
  • Results The segmental A/B ratio was negatively correlated with FEV 1 , vital capacity (VC), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of VC (FEF 25/75 ) and arterial oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) and positively with the residual volume: total lung capacity ratio (RV:TLC) and respiratory system resistance (Rrs). (bmj.com)
  • High-molecular-weight von Willebrand Factor multimer ratio differentiates true-severe from pseudo-severe classical low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis. (uib.no)
Echocardiographic studies1
  • Complete echocardiographic studies focusing on Doppler variables of diastolic ventricular function were performed on 223 normal children. (nih.gov)
Weeks of gestat1
  • 27 fetuses with HLHS and 66 healthy fetuses underwent echocardiography between 19 and 38 weeks of gestation. (bmj.com)
Citation1
  • citation needed] Pulsed wave spectral tissue Doppler has become a universal tool that is part of the general echocardiographic examination. (wikipedia.org)
Intracardiac1
  • Any intracardiac communication that allows high pulmonary blood flow will lead, over time, to irreversible pulmonary vascular injury, increased pulmonary artery pressures and, ultimately, to right-to-left intracardiac blood flow. (medscape.com)
Parameters2
  • Our results clearly show that the carotid stiffness and flow parameters are not altered in case of BAV compared with controls. (frontiersin.org)
  • Objective: To explore the correct test ways of the ductus venosus (DV) blood flow spectrum of the normal fetal and the rule of changes of the normal fetal DV blood flow spectrum along with gestational week, and to establish the reference ranges of the parameters of blood flow. (researchgate.net)
Methods2
Cardiovascular1
  • They were experts with international reputations in echocardiography and environmental or cardiovascular epidemiology. (cdc.gov)
Measurement3
  • Like any other echocardiographic measurement, measures by tissue Doppler should be interpreted in the context of the whole examination. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore we will remove the phrase "blood flow measurement," from the Nationally Noncovered Indications at 220.2(C)(2) of the National Coverage Determinations Manual. (cms.gov)
  • Echocardiography, cardiopulmonary exercise testing and measurement of N-terminal-pro-brain natriuretic peptide were performed at baseline and follow-up (11.6±3 months). (ersjournals.com)
Regurgitant fraction1
  • In addition, regurgitant fraction (RF) can be estimated by Doppler examination of the left subclavian artery (LSA-Doppler). (medscape.com)
Heart10
  • Normal values for the Doppler factors studied vary with both age and heart rate. (nih.gov)
  • Echocardiography is the most common test used in children to diagnose or rule out heart disease. (childrensnational.org)
  • Echocardiography is often useful in studying the beating heart and provides some information on functional abnormalities of the heart wall, valves and blood vessels. (imaginis.com)
  • and limited resistance to the flow of blood out of the heart (afterload). (aafp.org)
  • echocardiography (a diagnostic test where an image of the heart is obtained). (europa.eu)
  • Echocardiography is excellent for confirming tentative diagnoses, for assessing the severity of leaky heart valves or narrowed vessels, for evaluating chamber sizes and heart muscle function, for diagnosing high blood pressure in the lungs, for identifying birth defects in the heart, for detecting heart tumors, or for detecting pericardial disease (problems with the membrane surrounding the heart). (merckvetmanual.com)
  • Echocardiography uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the heart, the heart valves, and the great vessels. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Know the indications for and characteristic findings of echocardiography in patients with native valvular heart diseases and prosthetic heart valves, including endocarditis and its complications. (acc.org)
  • A Doppler ultrasound can examine your arteries (blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood from your heart and lungs to your body) and veins (blood vessels that carry blood from your body back to your heart and lungs to get more oxygen). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Many patients are seen recommendations of the American Society with established rheumatic heart disease at of Echocardiography. (who.int)
Color flow3
  • State routine scan protocols to evaluate an adult patient using 2D/M-Mode/Color Flow & Doppler echocardiographic techniques. (gcus.com)
  • Color flow mapping capability is extremely useful in the detection of shunts. (imaginis.com)
  • Color-flow doppler echocardiography can reveal the bacillus but takes a significantly lower incidence. (elastizell.com)
Ascending aorta1
Function1
  • In the same setting, with the same stress, it is now possible to image function and flow simultaneously and therefore catch both flow and function, with vasodilatator stone. (escardio.org)
Clinical2
  • The structure of the course is a combination of live lectures, scanning demonstrations, and interactive case studies presented by echocardiography experts to enable the learner to immediately begin integrating the skills learned into clinical practice. (gcus.com)
  • 7. De Simone R, Glombitza G, Vahl CF. Albers J, Meinzer HP, Hagl S. Three-dimensional Color Doppler: A Clinical Study in Patients With Mitral Regurgitation. (meduniver.com)
Dysfunction2
  • The objective of this study was to determine the utility of Doppler tissue echocardiography in the evaluation of diastolic filling and in discriminating between normal subjects and those with various stages of diastolic dysfunction. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Conclusions Infants with CLD have evidence of relative biventricular dysfunction and higher pulmonary arterial blood pressure as demonstrated by TDI, which were not detected by conventional echocardiography. (bmj.com)
Measures2
  • Measures and assesses the flow of blood through the heart's chambers and valves. (upmc.com)
  • Doppler (a diagnostic test that measures the speed of blood flow). (europa.eu)