How does hypertension influence cardiomyopathy?

The descending aorta can be seen in some echocardiographic standard-views, which you will learn here followed by several examples of aortic pathologies.

Ventricular tachycardia is a dangerous arrythmia and can be seen quite often in ECGs especially in an emergency department, but have you ever seen it in echo?

In this case, we see the typical strain pattern of apical sparing, which usually points to a storage disease. But in this patient, the underlying pathology is something totally different - showing us that strain patterns are very important, but still just a part of the puzzle.

In this video, Prof. Thomas Binder presents the case of a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy. Watch the clip to learn what different views of the heart might look like, and what to expect in the speckle tracking analysis here.

In this small clip Prof. Thomas Binder, MD enumerates the numerous pathologies you can find in a parasternal long axis view.