"Echocardiography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Ultrasonic recording of the size, motion, and composition of the heart and surrounding tissues. The standard approach is transthoracic.
| Descriptor ID |
D004452
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.130.750 E01.370.350.850.220 E01.370.370.380.220
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| Concept/Terms |
Echocardiography- Echocardiography
- Transthoracic Echocardiography
- Echocardiography, Transthoracic
2D Echocardiography- 2D Echocardiography
- Echocardiography, Two-Dimensional
- Echocardiography, Two Dimensional
- Echocardiography, 2D
- Echocardiography, 2-D
- Echocardiography, 2 D
- Two-Dimensional Echocardiography
- Two Dimensional Echocardiography
- 2-D Echocardiography
- 2 D Echocardiography
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Echocardiography" by people in this website by year, and whether "Echocardiography" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 1997 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2000 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2002 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2004 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 2006 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2007 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2008 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 2009 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 2010 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2011 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2012 | 5 | 15 | 20 |
| 2013 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2015 | 9 | 17 | 26 |
| 2016 | 11 | 16 | 27 |
| 2017 | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| 2018 | 10 | 14 | 24 |
| 2019 | 15 | 16 | 31 |
| 2020 | 5 | 35 | 40 |
| 2021 | 11 | 19 | 30 |
| 2022 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 2023 | 4 | 19 | 23 |
| 2024 | 11 | 18 | 29 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Echocardiography" by people in Profiles.
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Pulmonary Vein Flow Indices by MRI for Diastolic Function Evaluation. NMR Biomed. 2026 Sep; 39(9):e70364.
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AI echo INSIGHT study: A prospective blinded randomized trial of artificial intelligence echocardiogram interpretation. Contemp Clin Trials. 2026 Oct; 169:108431.
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A Clinically Interpretable Artificial Intelligence System for Real-Time Quality Control of Transthoracic Echocardiography: Development, Validation, and Deployment. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2026 Sep; 39(9):875-886.
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Robotic Totally Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery in Octogenarians: Age Is Just a Number! Innovations (Phila). 2026 May-Jun; 21(3):250-255.
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Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Cardiac Amyloidosis Diagnosis: Integrating Echocardiography With Clinical and Laboratory Data for Improved Detection. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2026 Jun; 19(6):e019610.
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Diagnostic Accuracy of the Apical Sparing Ratio for Detecting Cardiac Amyloidosis in Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Echocardiography. 2026 May; 43(5):e70474.
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Incident Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Influence of Right Ventricular Dilatation and Reduced Right Atrial Function. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 05 05; 15(9):e045587.
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Invasive haemodynamic validation of an artificial intelligence echocardiographic tool for detecting heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. ESC Heart Fail. 2026 Mar 03; 13(2).
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Delivering Rheumatic Heart Disease Diagnosis at Scale: Performance of an Integrated Public Health Screening Program in Northern Uganda. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 03 03; 15(5):e043275.
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The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Valvular Heart Disease with Cardiac Imaging. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2026 Jan 25; 28(1):15.