[New developments in the area of echocardiography and Doppler cardiography].

The noninvasive diagnostic in cardiology was substantially enriched in the past few years by the development and validation of echocardiography systems which enable a simultaneous presentation of cardiac structures and blood flow velocities. Thereby, informations with respect to congenital and valvular heart disease can be obtained that prerequisited cardiac catheterisation in the years before. The valuation of ventricular function and the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia was advanced by computerized echo image processing.