Ultrasound of the heart, in other words, echocardiography, is performed to identify abnormalities in the development of the organ and its vices . Periodic pain in the left hypochondrium requires an immediate visit to the cardiologist, who will appoint an ultrasound examination of the heart and carry out its decoding. The procedure itself is completely safe.
How do ultrasound of the heart?
For the procedure of heart ultrasound, you can independently consult a medical institution. To pass this diagnostic direction of the doctor is not required. Before the procedure begins, the specialist will ask you to undress to the waist and lie on your left side. The doctor-diagnostician will first apply a special conductive gel to the body, and then will fix the sensor data necessary for decoding the ultrasound of the heart.
What does the ultrasound of the heart show?
Ultrasound of the heart is considered the most informative and safe method of determining the state of the main body of a person. This procedure will help determine a person:
- the size of the organ;
- absence or presence of scars;
- condition of all valves;
- thickness of external walls;
- shock volume of the chambers of the heart;
- frequency of reductions;
- diameter of the aorta;
- percentage of the ejection fraction.
Decoding of the results of ultrasound of the heart
After the completion of the heart ultrasound, the doctor who conducted the examination will provide a transcript as a conclusion. If there are deviations from the norm, then after an ultrasound of the heart, you need to visit a specialist for treatment.
Having on hand the conclusion of the carried out research it is possible to carry out decoding of an ultrasound of the heart from an adult. But without medical education, only a general picture of the condition of the organ can be understood from this information. The data indicated in the protocol should be compared with the normal parameters of the ultrasound of the heart:
- the fractional release is normally in the range of 55 to 60%;
- shock volume ranges from 60 to 100 ml;
- The aorta should be in the range of 2.1 to 4.1 cm;
- the diastolic wall thickness is normally between 0.75 and 1.1 cm;
- Cattle or end systolic size ranging from 3.1 to 4.3 cm;
- the thickness of the left atrium is from 1.9 to 4.0 cm;
- the norm of the right atrium in the range from 2.7 to 4.5 cm.
If there is a slight deviation from the norm of the results based on the results of a heart ultrasound, it should be understood that the result of the survey can be influenced by sex, age, general health. A precise diagnosis will put only a cardiologist. Emergency call to a specialist will help to solve problems and begin, if necessary, treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system .