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ECHO TREATMENT

by sabiegovender, May 28, 2008 01:08PM

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what is echo treatment

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by Cleveland Clinic

, May 28, 2008 01:11PM

I have not heard of "echo treatment" in cardiology. Echocardiography is an imaging technique which allows us to visualize the heart and evalute its condition and function.

by cenafan448, Jun 04, 2008 01:44AM

An echo is where they monitor ur heart to check for dieseases i got one a littel ago for a heart diease called MARFANS i thing its a vave disorder or somthing but ye there u go =]

by mrwjd, Jun 04, 2008 08:50PM

To: sabiegovender

An echocardiogram is a way of examining your heart by using a sound resonance system (and don't as me what that is!).  It's really interesting to have, because you can see your heart beating and the other visible parts.

An expert in this technique can tell a lot more from it, of course, and reports to your cardiologist (or he comes up and sees it himself) what it shows.  For example, that's how they discovered my aortic valve was bicuspid, a congenital defect that a lot of people in this forum have or had before it was replaced.

This test is NOT INVASIVE--no pain, no anesthesia--and many think it gives even more information than an angiogram.  You lie down most of the time, and have wires attached to your body as you do with EKG.  Not unpleasant at all.

Good luck.

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