What does hyperechoic plaque mean?

Many people develop plaques on their bodies, and plaques are well known to everyone. Plaques are generally divided into congenital and acquired. Strong echo plaques are also a common disease in recent years. Hyperechoic plaques are caused by abnormalities in the heart of newborns. Generally, a comprehensive physical examination is performed when the fetus is born. So what exactly are hyperechoic plaques? Next, let’s follow the editor to learn more about it.

[1] Strong echo: It can be a relatively strong echo, a strong echo, or an extremely strong echo. ① Stronger echo: Tumors with dense tissue or increased blood vessels in the solid organs have large differences in acoustic impedance and more reflection interfaces, which enhance the local echo and appear as dense light spots or light clusters (gray-white shadows), such as cancer, myoma and hemangioma. ② Strong echo: The internal structure of the medium is dense, and there is a significant difference in acoustic impedance with the adjacent soft tissue or liquid, causing strong reflection. For example, bones, stones, and calcifications may appear as band-shaped or block-shaped areas of strong echoes (white shadows). Due to poor sound transmission, the sound energy below is attenuated, resulting in an echo-free dark area, which is the acoustic shadow. ③ Extremely strong echo: Since the acoustic impedance of air-containing organs such as the lungs and inflated gastrointestinal tract is extremely different from that of the adjacent soft tissues, almost all of the sound energy is reflected back and cannot be transmitted, resulting in extremely strong light bands.

[II] The strong echogenic spots in the left ventricle of the fetus are an ultrasound manifestation, not a heart malformation, let alone an ultrasound diagnosis of fetal heart abnormalities. They are very common in clinical practice, and their formation mechanism is not yet clear. There are several possibilities: 1. Mineral deposition in the center of the papillary muscles; 2. Thickening of the ventricular chordae tendineae; 3. Incomplete perforation of the papillary muscles and chordae tendineae (a variation in the developmental process). As the pregnancy progresses, most of them will shrink and disappear. Strong echogenicity within the heart has no important clinical significance for most fetuses, but it may also occur in fetuses with other intracardiac and extracardiac abnormalities. An ultrasound examination of the fetal heart can be performed around 34 weeks.

[3] The plaques with strong echoes shown on the carotid artery color Doppler ultrasound are hard plaques, those with low echoes are soft plaques, and those with equal echoes should be in between. You can consider lipid-lowering and plaque-stabilizing treatment. 1. Regular use of statins to lower blood lipids can reduce the formation of plaques and maintain the stability of plaques. Commonly used simvastatin, 10 mg, once a night. Long-term use.

2. Keep your emotions stable and taking aspirin may help. If your blood pressure is high, you should actively lower it.