Common Echocardiographic Diagnoses in Patients at Tertiary Care Center: An Observational Study

Abstract

Introduction: Echocardiography is an indispensable tool for the diagnosis and management of cardiac patients. It is important to know the spectrum of cardiac abnormalities detected by echocardiography for the proper management of patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the echocardiographic diagnosis of patients at a multispecialty tertiary care hospital and find out the prevalence of various cardiac diseases diagnosed via echocardiography.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross sectional study carried out at the Echocardiography lab of National Academy of Health Sciences. Records of all patients who had done Echocardiography from February 2024 to April 2024 were analyzed. Ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Review Committee (Reference number:1231/2080/81).

Results: Out of 3593 cases, there were 1750 (48.71%) female and 1843 (51.29%) male. Normal Echocardiographic study was seen in 1184 (32.95%). Mean age was 56.13±17.38 years. Left ventricle diastolic dysfunction was seen among 1428 (39.74%), followed by Tricuspid Regurgitation 1026 (28.55%) and, Pulmonary Hypertension 497 (13.83%). Other findings were, left ventricular hypertrophy 204 (5.67%), Left ventricular systolic dysfunction 165 (4.59%), Rheumatic heart Disease 102 (2.83%) and, congenital heart disease was the lowest documented finding, seen in 30 (0.83%).

Conclusions: Most common diseases diagnosed by echocardiography in our study were, diastolic dysfunction, tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonary hypertension.

Keywords: diastolic dysfunction; doppler; left ventricular hypertrophy; systolic dysfunction; transthoracic echocardiography.