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| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
<ul>
  <ul>
  <li>LA appendage</li>
      <li>LA appendage</li>
  <li>Mass/thrombus</li>
      <li>Mass/thrombus</li>
  <li>LV apex pathology</li>
      <li>LV apex pathology</li>
  <li>LV systolic dysfunction (apical segments)</li>
      <li>LV systolic dysfunction (apical segments)</li>
</ul>
  </ul>
 
| valign="top" | Required structures
| valign="top" | Required structures
<ul>
  <ul>
  <li>LA appendage</li>
      <li>LA appendage</li>
  <li>Mitral valve</li>
      <li>Mitral valve</li>
  <li>LV apex (i.e., maximal LV length)</li>
      <li>LV apex (i.e., maximal LV length)</li>
</ul>
  </ul>


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| Probe adjustment: neutral
| Probe adjustment: neutral
| Sector depth: ~12 cm
| Sector depth: ~12 cm
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| image
| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
  <ul>
      <li>Mitral valve pathology</li>
      <li>LVOT pathology</li>
  </ul>
| valign="top" | Required structures
  <ul>
      <li>LV</li>
      <li>Mitral valve</li>
      <li>LVOT</li>
  </ul>


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! ME mitral commissural
| Probe adjustment: neutral
| Sector depth: ~12 cm
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| image
| image
| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
<ul>
  <ul>
   <li>Mitral valve pathology</li>
      <li>Localization of mitral valve pathology</li>
   <li>LVOT pathology</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
 
| valign="top" | Required structures
   <ul>
      <li>Mitral valve (P<sub>1</sub>, P<sub>3</sub> and A<sub>2</sub> scallops)</li>
      <li>Papillary muscles/chordae tendineae</li>
      <li>LA</li>
      <li>LV</li>
   </ul>
 
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! TG mid-SAX
| Probe adjustment: neutral
| Sector depth: ~12 cm
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| valign="top" | Primary diagnostic issues
  <ul>
      <li>Hemodynamic instability</li>
      <li>LV enlargement</li>
      <li>LV hypertrophy</li>
      <li>LV systolic dysfunction (global and regional)</li>
  </ul>
 
| valign="top" | Required structures
| valign="top" | Required structures
<ul>
  <ul>
  <li>LV</li>
      <li>LV cavity</li>
  <li>Mitral valve</li>
      <li>LV walls (at least 50% of circumference with visible endocardium)</li>
  <li>LVOT</li>
      <li>Papillary muscles (approximately equal in size and distinct from ventricular wall)</li>
</ul>
  </ul>


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