| Abstract: | The foundation for echocardiography was laid many years ago. From its beginning, the story of echocardiography is replete with translation of creative concepts to reality, that have found wide clinical application. This is eloquently borne out by the events of the last decade, a golden decade that has seen cardiovascular ultrasound blossom as an art and science, and find a clinical niche of its own. Echocardiography combines low-cost with high-technology and easy portability, all attributes that are unmatched by other noninvasive techniques and essential in today's medical world. Newer concepts and evolving advances could only make echocardiography stronger, while we continue to use it to serve the ultimate objective, that is, aiding someone who is ailing. The world of echocardiography has changed and continues to change; the brave new world of echocardiography beckons ...A mind that is stretched to a new idea, never returns to its original dimension. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) |
