What is it ?
Echocardiography is a specialized ultrasound imaging of the heart. It is done with help of a blunt flexible probe which is rotated over chest to send ultrasound waves to heart and receive the reflected waves to construct the image of heart and its functioning in real time. It is called a non-invasive procedure since it does not involve any injections. Patient will lie down on an examining table.
Why is it done?
An echocardiogram can show the size of the heart's chambers, the thickness of the chamber walls, how the chambers and heart valves are working, and if there is fluid collecting around the heart Hence it is done to see structural abnormalities of the heart, specially useful in people who have had a heart attack, hypertensive individuals or have valve diseases and for diseases of the pericardial covering of the heart.
Echocardiography is a specialized ultrasound imaging of the heart. It is done with help of a blunt flexible probe which is rotated over chest to send ultrasound waves to heart and receive the reflected waves to construct the image of heart and its functioning in real time. It is called a non-invasive procedure since it does not involve any injections. Patient will lie down on an examining table.
Why is it done?
An echocardiogram can show the size of the heart's chambers, the thickness of the chamber walls, how the chambers and heart valves are working, and if there is fluid collecting around the heart Hence it is done to see structural abnormalities of the heart, specially useful in people who have had a heart attack, hypertensive individuals or have valve diseases and for diseases of the pericardial covering of the heart.