Case: mitochondriopaties and cardiac involvement

Predicting stroke risk is a frequent question in echocardiography, and atrial fibrosis plays an important role - one of the many things we can use strain for!

Prof. Binder and Bruno discuss why carotid pulses are difficult to palpate, why the guidelines discourage the act of pulse palpation and what other techniques may be used.

The probe is positioned sagittally in the suprasternal notch (older children) or along the left border of the sternum (neonates, ribs not yet calcified), with the marker pointing slightly towards the patient's left ear. You'll get a nice view of the ascending aorta, the aortic arch with branches, and the descending aorta.

Patients with HES can develop restrictive CMP and endomyocardial fibrosis. Learn more about this disease and its echo features in this video.

Image optimization is especially important when you want to automatically calculate parameters, as you would with speckle tracking. In this clip, our experts show you how to get the most reliable results.