A member asked:

Have chronic hypertension, fatigue and chest pain/ palpitations. echo was normal. now i need a bubble test. what can it see that's not on echo?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Chest pain: A bubble test looks for holes in the heart that take blood " the wrong way" through the heart. It's rare, but people can have congenital patent foramen ovale, a small hole, going un-noticed for a long time. This test follows the bubble, looking at the direction of blood through the heart.

Answered 4/24/2014

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