Normal Values: Difference between revisions

| style="vertical-align:top" | - 2D parasternal short-axis view

| style="vertical-align:top" | - contour of the inner mitral orifice

| style="vertical-align:top" | - determine the smallest orifice by scanning from apex to base

| style="vertical-align:top" | - include commissures when opened

| style="vertical-align:top" | - positioning of measurement plan can be oriented by 3D echo

| style="vertical-align:top" | - in mid-diastole (use cine-loop)

| style="vertical-align:top" | - continuous-wave Doppler

| style="vertical-align:top" | - mean gradient from the traced contour of the diastolic mitral flow

| style="vertical-align:top" | - apical windows often suitable (optimize intercept angle)

| style="vertical-align:top" | - pressure half-time from the descending sLope of the E-wave (mid-diastole slope if not linear)

| style="vertical-align:top" | - continuous-wave Doppler

| style="vertical-align:top" | - maximum velocity of tricuspid regurgitant flow

| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top" | - parasternal short-axis view

| style="vertical-align:top" | - valve thickness (maximum and heterogeneity)

| - commissural fusion

| style="vertical-align:top" | - extension and location of localized bright zones (fibrous nodutes or calcification)

| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top" | - parasternal long-axis view

| style="vertical-align:top" | - valve thickness

| style="vertical-align:top" | - extension of calcification

| style="vertical-align:top" | - valve pliability

| style="vertical-align:top" | - subvalvular apparatus (chordal thickening, fusion, or shortening)

| style="vertical-align:top" | - subvalvular apparatus (chordal thickening, fusion, or shortening)