Echokardiografie – welche Parameter sind ein Muss in der Routine?

Abstract

Quantifiable diagnostic parameters offer objectivity and better comparability for follow-up examinations – if they can be obtained reliably. This concerns in particular echocardiography. Today, there are plenty of possibilities in echocardiography to “measure something”: Linear distances, surfaces, volumes, flow velocities/pressure gradients, myocardial velocities, strain and much more. Undoubtedly only a very small part of the parameters known in the literature make sense and are practicable. In the following the authors try to give – from the personal experience – a brief, evaluating overview about echocardiographic parameters appearing in daily practice in the routine examination.

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