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Transthoracic echocardiography is a commonly performed cardiac investigation that provides comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function to establish diagnoses and guide therapy.
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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.
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Hillis et al. (2005) 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.
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