What is the definition or description of: transesophageal echocardiogram?

Transesophageal echo: Transesophageal (echocardiography ( or tee, is a test that uses sound waves to create high-quality moving pictures of the heart and its blood vessels. You swallow a transducer on the tip of a flexible tube placed with the help of the doctor. It can find blood clots. Problems with the aorta, and fluid in the pericardium.

Heart ultrasound: This is an ultrasound examination of the heart where the probe is inserted or swallowed into the esophagus to allow better examination of the heart than can be obtained from outside the chest. The distance from the esophagus to the heart is less than that from the chest wall to the heart and this allows a more detailed exam of many structures in the heart.