[Clinical application of echocardiokymography for detection of global and sectorial dyskinesias (author's transl)].

Overview

The clinical application of a new ultrasonic technique, echocardiokymography (ECKG), has been showed particularly useful in the detection of myocardial and pericardial dyskinesias. In patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, the global hypokynesia was confirmed by the ECKG; regional impairment of parietal wall motion after myocardial infarction is clearly demonstrated by the technique; acute and chronic pericarditis show peculiar kymographic patterns. The ECKG is a kind of two-dimensional examination, that keeps some of the advantages of the time-motion, in the comparative study of cardiac walls dynamics.