Transthoracic Echocardiography
Also written as TTE.
| Transthoracic echocardiography | What is the ventricular size, EF, and valve status? | EF < 40 % → HFrEF; EF ≥ 50 % with high E/e′ → HFpEF; identifies regurgitation or stenosis as a cause. |
What our notes say
- | Transthoracic echocardiography | What is the ventricular size, EF, and valve status? | EF < 40 % → HFrEF; EF ≥ 50 % with high E/e′ → HFpEF; identifies regurgitation or stenosis as a cause. | (Heart failure: which tests and why)
- | Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) | Valve morphology, gradients, regurgitant fraction, chamber size | Shows stenosis area, regurgitant jet, LV hypertrophy | (Heart murmurs)
- Investigative step: Perform transthoracic echocardiography to quantify mitral valve area, assess severity of stenosis, and detect associated pulmonary pressures. (Heart murmurs)
- Transthoracic echocardiography reveals mild mitral regurgitation and a small pericardial effusion. (Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease)
- Transthoracic echocardiography shows a 6 mm vegetation. (Infective endocarditis)
- Bedside transthoracic echocardiography (point-of-care). (Pericarditis, effusion and tamponade)