Experience with echocardiography: a review of 330 cases

ABSTRACT

Echocardiography was performed in 330 patients, suspected as having a cardiac lesion. The largest group studied was of Rheumatic Heart Disease [139 patients] followed by Congenital Heart Disease [50], Cardiomyopathy [41] and Pericardial Effusion [19] in that order. Eight one patients did not show any cardiac lesions. In Rheumatic Heart Disease group, mitral stenosis was the commonest lesion. V.S.D. and Fallot's Terology were the common congenital lesions