"What is the use of checking the heart color ultrasound?" What diseases can be found? Is it to make me spend money? ”

"What is the use of checking the heart color ultrasound?" What diseases can be found? Is it to make me spend money? A fan friend who did not understand the use of the heart color ultrasound once asked

To tell the truth, in fact, the role of cardiac color ultrasound is quite large, today Dr.

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In real life, many people feel that the heart is uncomfortable, go to the hospital to see a doctor, the doctor will let the heart ultrasound for examination

Cardiac ultrasound can detect many diseases, especially heart disease, which can be roughly divided into the following categories:

1.

Cardiac ultrasound can even be said to be the classic "gold standard" level for the diagnosis of many valvular diseases

Valvular disease

2.

Among the congenital heart diseases, some are valvular heart disease, but some are not, such as atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, patent ductus arteriosus, Tetralogy of Fallot, aortic transposition, tricuspid valve downward displacement deformities and other diseases, these diseases can also be diagnosed by cardiac ultrasound and guide later treatment

Congenital heart disease

3.

Another big practical role of cardiac ultrasound in modern medicine is to clarify heart function, such as a patient with chest tightness and breath holding, and doctors suspect that he has heart failure

Cardiac function

4.

There are three main types of cardiomyopathy, namely hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and restrictive cardiomyopathy, and the test of cardiac ultrasound can give a clear diagnosis of these diseases

cardiomyopathy

5.

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hypertension

6.

When it comes to the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, friends with a little medical knowledge will say that the diagnosis of coronary heart disease relies on electrocardiogram, coronary CTA, coronary angiography, which has nothing to do with cardiac color ultrasound, or that cardiac color ultrasound cannot diagnose coronary heart disease

coronary heart disease

7.
Pericardial disease

There is also a layer of pericardium on the outside of the human heart muscle, and pericardial disease cardiac ultrasound can also help with diagnosis, such as cardiac tamponade and stenosis pericarditis
.
If nothing else, let's say that pericardial effusion, the most common clinical pericardial disease, can be definitively diagnosed
by doing a cardiac ultrasound.
Therefore, relatively rare pericardial disease, cardiac ultrasound can also give a clear diagnosis
.

Pericardial disease

8.
Aortic dissection

Cardiac ultrasound diagnosis of aortic dissection is not the best test, the best test must be aortic enhancement CT
.
But for some special cases, cardiac ultrasound can help provide clues and assist in diagnosis
.
For example, if the aortic dissection is torn to the root of the aorta, the doctor who does cardiac ultrasound at this time is an experienced "god-level" cardiac ultrasound doctor, and at this time it may also be possible to find the dissection of the root of the aorta through cardiac color ultrasound
, which may indeed exist, and I myself have also felt the strength of this kind of top doctor, so I also take this role out to introduce it to you.

Aortic dissection

9.
Pulmonary artery embolism

As with aortic dissection, cardiac ultrasound is not the best test to diagnose pulmonary embolism
.
The best way to diagnose pulmonary artery embolism is pulmonary artery strengthening CT, but experienced cardiac ultrasound doctors can highly suspect that patients have pulmonary artery embolism through some indirect indications of cardiac ultrasound, including enlargement of the right ventricle, thickening of the right ventricular wall, widening of the trunk of the pulmonary artery, and pulmonary hypertension
.
Therefore, in some special cases of pulmonary artery embolism, cardiac ultrasound can provide certain clues and assist in diagnosis
.

Pulmonary artery embolism

In fact, in addition to the 9 diseases mentioned above, cardiac color ultrasound can also diagnose heart tumors, aortic aneurysms, Kawasaki disease, early fetal heart screening and other diseases
.
It can be said that cardiac ultrasound is of many uses, and everyone can consider checking the cardiac ultrasound regularly even if it is a normal physical examination, especially those with cardiovascular diseases, and it should be checked
regularly.

To sum up, cardiac ultrasound can be healthy for many diseases, but the final diagnosis of many diseases can not rely entirely on cardiac ultrasound, and ultimately it is necessary to combine clinical practice in order to make a specific diagnosis under the guidance of professional doctors and give targeted treatment
.

The above is my introduction to the heart color ultrasound, if you think it is good, you can forward it to friends and family, so that more people can benefit
.