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An echocardiogram is considered a safe procedure for most people. An echocardiogram should be done every year to make sure you maintain a healthy heart.1. What is echocardiography?
Echocardiography is a simple, reliable, non-invasive method that helps us investigate the morphology, function and hemodynamics of the heart chambers, septum, pericardium, and great vessels. connected to the heart.
Trắc nghiệm: Huyết áp của bạn có đang thực sự tốt?
Huyết áp cao hay thấp đều ảnh hưởng đến tình trạng sức khỏe con người. Để biết tình trạng huyết áp của bạn có thực sự tốt không, hãy làm bài trắc nghiệm sau đây để đánh giá.2. Why need echocardiography?
Echocardiography will help doctors in diagnosing heart health quickly and effectively. One of the safe and quick methods to provide timely treatment to help you maintain a healthy heart.
When using an ultrasound machine, doctors can perform an echocardiogram to observe the patient's heart. The ultrasound waves from the ultrasound machine allow doctors to see how the patient's heart is beating and pumping blood. Through the results of an echocardiogram, the doctor can find many abnormalities in the heart muscle and heart valves.
As a widely used medical method, echocardiography helps check for abnormalities of the heart including:
Unusual heartbeat and size Unexplained chest pain Irregular heartbeat or breathing folding Detecting congenital heart defects Examination of heart valves, chambers, and contractions of the heart's walls Assess for heart thrombosis Clinical diagnosis before heart surgery Problems with the heart muscle, inner membranes and layers of the heart out of heart
3. Types of echocardiography
Doppler echocardiography: Can measure values of blood flow velocity at different locations in the heart chambers. For example, abnormal flow can be detected in a damaged valve leaflet. It can also assess how well the heart valves are working.
One-way echocardiography : Probes the anatomical components of the heart by a single ultrasound beam. 2-D ultrasound: See the anatomical cuts of the heart. The visible image is almost like its real anatomy due to the rapid scanning from the transducer of multiple ultrasound beams and due to the residual effect of light on the screen. Transthoracic echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography.
4. Meaning of symbols commonly used in echocardiography
The meanings of the symbols in echocardiography are as follows:
Ao: Aorta (Aorta)
LA: Left Atrium
RA: Right Atrium
LV: Left Ventricular
RV: Right Ventricular
LVOT: left ventricular outflow tract
RVOT: right ventricular outflow tract
EF: Ejection Fraction
EF (teich) : Teicholz ejection fraction
IVSd: Interventricular Septal Diastolic thickness
IVSs: Interventricular Septal Systolic thickness
LVEDd : Left ventricular diastolic diameter (Left Ventricular End Diastolic Dimension)
LVEDs: Left Ventricular End Systolic Dimension
LVPWd: Left ventricular posterior wall diastolic
LVPWs: Left ventricular posterior wall thickness systolic (Left ventricular posterior wall systolic)
EDV (Teich): End-diastolic volume according to Teicholz method (End diastolic Volume)
ESV (Teich): End-systolic volume according to Teicholz method (End-systolic volume)
SV (Teich): Stroke Volume
Ann: Annular diameter (Annular)
AML: Anterior leaflet anterior mitral valve leaflet
PML: posterior mitral valve leaflet
MVA: mitral valve area
PHT: pressure half time
TV: Tricuspid Valve
AnnTV: Annular Tricuspid Valve diameter
AV: Aortic Valve
AoVA: Diameter of aortic annulus
AoR: Diameter Sinus Valsalva
STJ: Sinus duct junction
AoA: Ascending aorta
AoT: Loop aorta
AoD: Descending aorta
AVA: Diameter of aortic valve hole
Meaning of symbols in ultrasound The heart helps to interpret abnormal echocardiogram results, so that the doctor can provide appropriate treatment.S
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