Echocardiography 101

When it comes to diagnosing certain heart diseases, this older testing modality is a workhorse. It is also now used to guide new treatments.

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Most people are familiar with ultrasound as the technology used to monitor unborn babies during pregnancy. When ultrasound is used to look inside a beating heart from outside the body, it is called echocardiography. The technology produces images from sound waves bounced off theheart.
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