title: Echocardiography. Principles of interpretation.
abstract: Echocardiography offers the clinician an opportunity to image the heart noninvasively. Both M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography can be used to measure cardiac dilation and hypertrophy and to quantitate myocardial function. Knowledge of normal echocardiographic anatomy is essential for understanding changes that occur in disease.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004285:Dogs; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000662:veterinary*; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology