Transthoracic echocardiography is a commonly performed cardiac investigation that provides comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function to establish diagnoses and guide therapy.
Transthoracic echocardiography is a widely used tool for assessing cardiac structure and function, and understanding its capabilities and limitations is important for non-cardiologists.
Transthoracic echocardiography is one of the most commonly performed cardiac investigations. It can provide comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function, helping to establish a diagnosis and guide therapy, and is no longer the preserve of the specialist cardiology department. Examinations are frequently requested by doctors in other branches of medicine; they need to know what questions an echocardiogram can, and cannot, answer.
Hillis et al. (Thu,) reported a review. Transthoracic echocardiography was evaluated. Transthoracic echocardiography is a commonly performed cardiac investigation that provides comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function to establish diagnoses and guide therapy.