Echocardiography

There are a huge number of cardiac abnormalities that we can detect and diagnose in first opinion practice and once again cardiac imaging plays a huge role in refining the differential diagnosis list and defining the nature of the underlying structural or functional cardiac disease.

Echocardiography enables use to make a detailed assessment of the cardiac and extracardiac structures including the heart chambers, valves, inflow and outflow tracts, pericardial sac, and surrounding pleural and pulmonary structures.

Using this holistic approach, we can make accurate determinations on the cardiac systolic and diastolic function, myocardial and endocardial disease, valvular insufficiency, malformation, stenosis and flow, as well as being able to detect, determine the causation of and treat thoracic and pericardial effusion.

Common indications for echocardiography include: