1980 Volume 11 Issue 4 Pages 361-370
Conventional M-mode echocardiography has become an established diagnostic method for noninvasive evaluation of cardiovascular diseases. Now, the advent of two-dimensional real-time echocardiography has opened up a promising way to more extensive investigation in clinical cardiology. In the past few years, there has been a remarkable progress in the clinical application of two-dimensional echocardiography. This technique of echocardiography was performed in about 400 patients at our hospital during the past one year. In this paper, we introduced the general idea of two-dimensional real-time echocardiography and showed a variety of cases.
