title: [Importance of echocardiography in the diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy].
abstract: The echocardiographic pattern was assessed in relation to angiocardiographic changes in 62 patients with dilatation cardiomyopathy (DCMP). Considerable cardiac hemodynamic disorders, with enlarged left ventricular and left atrial cavities, limited myocardial contractility, hypokinetic posterior wall and ventricular septum, and hypertrophic left ventricle showing no correlation to the degree of dilatation were demonstrated. Major quantitative echocardiographic criteria for DCMP diagnosis are: end diastolic left ventricular size increased beyond 5.7 cm, a less than 26.4% decrease in systolic anteroposterior left ventricular shortening, and a less than 43.6% decrease in posterior wall thickening time.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000790:Angiocardiography; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction
vernacular_title: Znachenie ékhokardiografii v diagnostike dilatatsionnoĭ kardiomiopatii.