title: Echocardiography. Congenital heart disease.
abstract: Echocardiography can be used to identify malformations of the heart and to assess the degree of cardiac compensation that occurs with congenital heart disease. Integration of clinical and ultrasound data will generally allow a diagnosis to be made noninvasively. Contrast echocardiography may delineate intracardiac shunting.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002415:Cats; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004285:Dogs; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000662:veterinary*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000002:abnormalities