Two-dimensional echocardiography

It shows flat "cuts" of the heart while maintaining the actual movement of individual structures.

Indication:
 * Demonstration of pathological cardiac structures– thrombi, myxoma, tumors;
 * assessment of valve structure and movement - post-rheumatic and congenital valve defects, mitral valve prolapse, forward movement of the anterior mitralis in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, infectious endocarditis;
 * evaluation of ventricular systolic function by assessment of myocardial systolic thickening - coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, heart defects, myocarditis;
 * myocardial infarction complications - rupture of the tendons / walls of the left ventricle, aneurysm;
 * morphological + structural abnormalities - congenital heart defects;
 * pericardial effusion and tamponade
 * pericardial diseases - constrictive pericarditis;
 * heart wall thickness - hypertension.

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