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Examples of pathological findings |
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—Echocardiographic examinations |
—Cardiac function and PA pressure |
—Examples of pathological findings Valvular heart disease Intracardiac masses Pericardial disease Cardiomyopathies Aortic dissection Congenital heart disease echo|case |
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Cadiomyopathies | ||||||
Guidelines and Standards AHA/ACC Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 2020 How to Image Cardiac Amyloidosis (JACC review), 2020 Cardiac Amyloidosis: Evolving Diagnosis and Management (AHA scientific statement), 2020 Multimodality imaging in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of patients with DCM: an expert consensus document from the EACVI, 2019 Diagnosis and Evaluation of Dilated Cardiomyopathy (JACC review), 2016 |
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dilatative cardiomyopathy (DCM) form the parasternal long axis view.
The LV and LA are dilated.
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dilated cardiomyopathy with severly reduced systolic LV function as seen from the four- chamber view.
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Left:
a severe myocadial hypertrophy can point to a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but also as in this case,
to a myocardial involvement by amyloidosis.
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longitudinal 2D strain in cardiac amyloidosis. The apex is better (red) as die basis (pink).
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Left:
apical form of a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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