How can a funnel chest affect the echocardiogram?

Hypertension is a very common finding in our patients, and we all know the impact this disease has on the body. But how does strain change in hypertensive heart disease, and how do your patients benefit from you using this technology? Watch this video to find out!

2D echocardiography can be used to assess regional wall motion abnormalities, but speckle tracking allows you do so on a whole other level - watch this short clip to find out why we are so excited about this technology.

Bulging of the septum is a well-documented sign of cardiomyopathy. Speckle tracking gives quite interesting information on this symptom and the underlying pathology, which is shown in this short clip.

In this video Prof. Thomas Binder, MD shows you how to distinguish between two common forms of cardiomyopathy, namely dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy resulting from coronary artery disease.