RT Book, Section
A1 Tacy, Theresa A.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7049223
T1 Chapter 495. Echocardiography
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7049223
RD 2024/04/20
AB Ultrasonography  is  a  valuable  and  widely  available  technique  for  evaluating  the  patient  with  suspected  heart  disease.  Standard  2-dimensional  and  Doppler  echocardiography  play  a  major  role  in  defining  cardiac  anatomy,  assessing  ventricular  function,  and  detecting  abnormal  flow  patterns  associated  with  cardiac  disease.  In  many  instances,  the  diagnostic  accuracy  of  echocardiography  is  equivalent  to  that  of  cardiac  catheterization,1  and  has  dramatically  decreased  the  need  for  diagnostic  catheterization  preoperatively.  In  addition  to  transthoracic  echocardiography,  other  modalities  such  as  fetal,  transesophageal,  and  stress  echocardiography  are  widely  used.  It  is  the  goal  of  this  chapter  to  acquaint  the  reader  with  the  basic  concepts,  as  well  as  the  indications  for  each  type  of  echocardiographic  examination.