Please help with echos sm

This is my first experience doing an echo.  I have no samples of how they want this done (I am using an old Stedman's to try to wing it)

Can someone with experience typing these critique this for me..????  This is really not my area of expertise and the dictator is not the clearest either.  Many many thanks.  

Janet 

TITLE OF PROCEDURE

Echocardiogram

FINDINGS

Left atrium grossly normal. Mitral valve grossly normal.  Valve leaflet morphology and motion.  Left ventricle normal.  Systolic and diastolic dimensions grossly normal.  Segmental wall motion and systolic function overall.  Endocardium somewhat difficult to visualize. Estimated ejection fraction 50-55%.  Aortic valve mildly sclerotic valve leaflets with no frank stenosis or regurgitation.  Aortic (root? Route) normal. Atrium normal.  Tricuspid valve normal.  Right ventricle normal size and systolic function.  The pulmonic valve is normal.  Pericardium is normal.  No significant effusion, intracardiac masses or thrombi, none observed. 

COMMENTS

Somewhat technically limited study due to acoustic window quality.

IMPRESSION

1.      Grossly normal left ventricular size and systolic function.

2.      No evidence of valvular heart disease.

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