Echo kg

Echoes kg (echocardiography) is a type of ultrasound. It is used in the study of the heart and blood vessels and the determination of internal blood flow.

The possibilities of ultrasound equipment for Echoes kg allow to see the operation of cardiac structures in real time. In this case, it is possible to calculate the blood flow velocity in the main vessels, the size of the heart, and also to determine the pressure in the cardiac cavities with the use of computer processing of the indices.

Echoes kg is prescribed for acquired and congenital defects (stenosis of valves and their insufficiency, defects (anomalies in the development) of the interventricular or interatrial septum and others), atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction and its consequences, ischemic disease, cardiac pain of different etiology, pericardial diseases, Angina, infectious endocarditis, cardiomyopathy, cardiac tumors. The study can be conducted for preventive purposes.

Of particular importance Echo kg has in diagnosing children's heart diseases, especially against the background of intensive development of the child's body.

This method of ultrasound is a modern way to identify cardiovascular diseases in the early stages and disorders of fat metabolism (hypertension, ischemia, myocardial disease). With the use of echocardiography, differential diagnosis of various heart rhythm disorders is performed, as well as the selection of optimal antiarrhythmic therapy. This study is indispensable in carrying out recovery activities and monitoring patients who have suffered angioplasty of the arteries, myocardial infarction or cardiac valve prosthetic surgery. With the help of echocardiography, doctors assess the role of provoking factors (overweight, smoking, inactivity, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure) in the progression of IHD.

It should be noted that such an echocardiogram is the only study that allows one to identify congenital malformations in the development of the heart, as well as a disorder of its rhythm in prenatal development. After childbirth it allows you to diagnose amenable to surgical correction or incompatible with life pathologies.

Echoes of the fetus can be carried out with the twentieth week of pregnancy. The study is mandatory in the event that previously there were miscarriages, as well as undeveloped pregnancies, children born before, the father or mother have a congenital heart defect. In addition, echocardiography is necessary in the presence of diseases of connective tissue (lupus erythematosus), chronic viral infection of the genitourinary system (cytomegalovirus, herpes, chlamydia, Coxsackie virus, ureaplasmosis and others), influenza, as well as when taking medications (antibiotics, antihypertensive agents , Indomethacin) in the first trimester. The study is also conducted by primiparous women over the age of thirty-five.

Echocardiogram of the fetus is carried out in case of detection of irregular episodes of rhythm, delayed developmental syndrome, chromosomal and extracardiac pathology, dropsy of non-immune genesis, with deviations in the parameters of the fetoplacental blood flow.

It should be noted that this method of diagnosis is considered over the past twenty years as one of the main ways of visualization of the heart. Echocardiography makes it possible to assess the thickness of the heart walls, the size of the body cavities, the presence of scars and intracardiac thrombi, contractility, function and condition of the valves. The study is safe, painless. To conduct it, special preparation is not required.