Heart attack | Echocardiography

Heart attack Echocardiography can play an important role in the diagnosis of a heart attack. In a heart attack, blood vessels that normally supply the heart with blood, the coronary arteries, become blocked. If a coronary artery is blocked, parts of the heart muscle are undersupplied with oxygen and this undersupplied area of the heart … Heart attack | Echocardiography

Indication | Echocardiography

Indication Echocardiography is used for the diagnosis of numerous diseases of the heart, as well as partly for the supportive diagnosis of diseases outside the heart. Since echocardiography is a very meaningful and inexpensive procedure that is available nationwide, echocardiography is used very frequently. In addition, it is a low-risk procedure that is not very … Indication | Echocardiography

Summary | Echocardiography

Summary Ultrasound examination of the heart (echocardiography) has become an important part of today’s diagnosis of heart disease. The largely non-invasive possibility of displaying the heart function in the “echo” can reveal numerous heart diseases such as valve defects, constrictions (stenoses), short circuits between the chambers or atria (shunts) and wall movement disorders. Minimally invasive … Summary | Echocardiography

Echocardiography

Echocardiography is a method of examining the heart. Here the heart is visualized by an ultrasound. This makes echocardiography, along with electrocardiography (ECG), one of the most important, non-invasive examinations of the heart. The various echocardiographic procedures (transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography and exercise echocardiography) are not only used to diagnose cardiac diseases, but also to … Echocardiography

Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) | Echocardiography

Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Transesophageal echocardiography refers to the ultrasound examination of the heart from the esophagus. This examination is somewhat more invasive and less comfortable for the patient.Usually the patient is anaesthetized with a sleeping pill before the examination so that the examination is not unpleasant. Then a movable tube, which has a small ultrasound … Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) | Echocardiography