FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: two-dimensional echocardiographic study of the myocardium and parallel electrocardiogram recording is performed. The study areas on the left ventricle images are isolated into the diastole at the level of its base and middle third along the short axis of the heart, obtained from the parasternal position. Each study area is divided into lower, posterior, lateral, anterior, anterior septal and septal segments. In each of the isolated segments of the base and middle third of the left ventricle, myocardium thickness in the area of margins and the middle is determined, and the average index of myocardium thickness is calculated. If the value of the calculated indicator is more than 17 mm at least in one of the segments of the base or middle third of the left ventricle, systolic myocardial dysfunction is diagnosed.
EFFECT: method allows to provide early, reliable and accurate diagnosis of this pathology, to prevent complications caused by application of MRI, which requires patient exposure, use of radiopaque preparation with side effects, to expand diagnostic capabilities by increasing the contingent of examined subjects with a pacemaker or defibrillator cardioverter.
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