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echocardiography
Sign in to saveEchocardiography, also known as cardiac ultrasound, is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart. It is a type of medical imaging, using standard ultrasound or Doppler ultrasound. The visual image formed using this technique is called an echocardiogram, a cardiac echo, or simply an echo.
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Within Vinony's link graph, echocardiography is referenced by 771 other articles, and connects out to ventricle of the heart, Q42297149 and computed tomography.
Vinony files it under Cardiac imaging, Cardiology and Medical ultrasonography.
Its subject is documented across 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Echocardiography
- Medical intervention.Image
- Apikal4D.gif
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Three-dimensional echocardiogram of a heart viewed from the apex.
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D004452
- Medical intervention.MedlinePlus
- 003869
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Research
234,953 papers- [Echocardiography].Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery · 2014
- 3D transesophageal echocardiography in TAVR.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2020
- Echocardiography in the neonatal unit: current status and future prospects.Expert review of medical devices · 2024
- Interventional echocardiography: Opportunities and challenges in an emerging field.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2022
- Echocardiography.European journal of cardiology · 1975
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- Echocardiogram 4chambers.jpg
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- Echocardiography
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Medical uses
- Types
- Transthoracic echocardiogram
- Transesophageal echocardiogram
- Stress echocardiography
- Intracardiac echocardiography
- Intravascular ultrasound
- Modes
- A-mode
- B-mode / 2D
- M-mode
- Strain rate imaging (deformation echocardiography)
- Three-dimensional echocardiography
- Contrast echocardiography
- Accreditation
- Europe
- UK
- United States
- Terminology
- See also
- References
- External links
Echocardiography, also known as cardiac ultrasound, is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart. It is a type of medical imaging, using standard ultrasound or Doppler ultrasound. The visual image formed using this technique is called an echocardiogram, a cardiac echo, or simply an echo.
Echocardiography is routinely used in the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients with any suspected or known heart diseases. It is one of the most widely used diagnostic imaging modalities in cardiology. It can provide a wealth of helpful information, including the size and shape of the heart (internal chamber size quantification), pumping capacity, location and extent of any tissue damage, and assessment of valves. An echocardiogram can also give physicians other estimates of heart function, such as a calculation of the cardiac output, ejection fraction, and diastolic function (how well the heart relaxes).
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