An echo test involves ultrasound-- high-frequency sound waves -- to evaluate the function of heart muscle and valves, the same technology used to ensure a developing baby is healthy. In a cardiac ...

Your doctor can identify structural cardiac issues like valve disorders or function issues like heart failure through an ...

Tuesday was the Ohio Valley Health Center’s first day providing an in-house echocardiogram for one of its patients, through a ...

The artificial intelligence model predicts patients’ heart disorders and risk of future heart failure using just an ...

In recognition of American Heart Month this February, MyMichigan will dedicate its Monday column to a series of educational ...

Replacing faulty heart valves used to require open-heart surgery ... Any patient with these symptoms should be evaluated for valvular heart disease, often with an echocardiogram. “We tend to make ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

Dynamic auscultation and echocardiography are helpful ... valve closure can cause a paradoxically split S2 heart sound and, as the aortic valve becomes more heavily calcified, the intensity ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear ...