Cardiac echo
Cardiac echo is a somewhat redundant term for "echocardiogram." during this painless procedure, harmless sound waves are passed into the chest and reflected back, providing a detailed image of the heart, measures of the flow of blood within it, and information about certain structures which surround the heart as well.
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A 47-year old asked:
What is a cardiac echo useful for?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Is this to worry about? Cardiac echo said: diastolic parameters borderline abnormal. Lateral peak velocity 14cm/second, medial 6cm/second.
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A 26-year old female asked:
Looking at becoming an cardiac echo tech. Are there many jobs out there? Good schools in socal? Looking to make a decent living. Ekg tech maybe?
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A 37-year old asked:
With mitral stenosis -- what is the point of listening to my heart when they always just do a cardiac echo anyway?
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A 39-year old male asked:
I had a cardiac echo stress test recently, results were normal but they did find a single ruptured tendinae. What is chance of valve issues later?
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A 35-year old male asked:
36 M with clean cardiac echo stress and lipids. No risk factors. Pain in lower back and localized pain in upper left chest for 9 mths. Cardiac? Scared
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A 17-year old female asked:
Got a something which was pre diagnosed as panic attack 2times in 10days. Mri, egg, EEG and cardiac echo all perfect.What to do?
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A female asked:
Normal D-Dimer lab, cardiac echo shows mild RCA blockage , physican ordered a nuclear stress test . I am a Paramedic ,can you code with a stress test?
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A 63-year old male asked:
Good afternoon doctors. I had a cardiac EKG and cardiac echo which were both normal. I had a nuclear stress test last December which was also good. Occasionally I still get mild chest pains....what might be causing these? Should I be going to the ER?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Hi. Follow up cardiac echo revealed my LAd to be 5.09cm and LAa to be 27.1 cm2. On BP meds for LVH, which is down to 1.1 IVSd and 1.01 PWd. Aortic root is 3.89 and asc is 3.66. I do cardio 5x weekly. Not sure what's going on doc ordered cMRI. Thanks
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A 21-year old female asked:
Could dysautonomia cause weakness and upper body discomfort, followed by sinus tach up to 170 not relieved quickly by lying down, and vomiting? Cardiac echo, EKG normal and arteries scanned.
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A 34-year old female asked:
After oily meal fast heart rate chest and shoulder pain if i was walking then sat down.holter cardiac echo cardiac CT w contrast stress tst ok??
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A 33-year old female asked:
Chst pain on off w dyspnea.Ecg heart enzyme cardiac echo angio CT w contrast ok.Can it be angina?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Cardiac ct, stres tst,holter, cardiac echo all normal.feel tired w air hunger when walk, pain left blade hand.mild reflux,clear lungs.obese.reason?
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A 22-year old male asked:
What could be the cause of jugular vein distention, hypertension, fast heart rate upon motion with normal cardiac echo, ekg, and thyroid?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Is a cardiac doppler echo/ tte accurate if performed correctly for finding physical malformations that cause murmur?
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A 34-year old male asked:
34 M who has been cleared by two doctors wrt cardiac health echo stress 1 yr back good I am scared to be alone as I think I will have a heart attack?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Sudden chest pain,sweating. Normal torpnin i,cardiac enzymes, echo normal. normal ECG only inversion of t wave in lead 3 since 6 months. What is cause?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Resting hr 49-55 laid down during this period I get more PVCs and PACs? All heart tests normal, cardiac mri, echo , ecg, stress ECG etc
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A 26-year old male asked:
Possibility of heart attack with normal: EKG, troponin, nuclear stress, cardiac MRI, echo, calcium score? I have chest / left arm pain. Need cath/CTA?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Have episodes of normal HR until I stand & HR goes from 72 up to 110-134 & remains elevated until I sit or lay, also lightheaded, blurred vision, heart palps, and anxiety. Fatigue afterward. POTS? Normal ECG/EKG, cardiac enzymes, Echo, lab, & chest x?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Left atrium volume index of 36 cc/m2. Is this significant? Everything else on Echo & cardiac MRI was normal. History of NSVT.
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A 26-year old male asked:
I just had a stress echo, cardiac MRI and 3d echo that where all good a month ago at mayo what are the chances my chest pain are cardiac in nature?
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A 31-year old male asked:
I get about 20 PVCS daily, a lot of them are interpolated PVCS. Are these benign like normal PVCS? Normal echo, cardiac MRI and resting ECG?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Since 18 chest pain wen excersise. Had ecg, stress ecg, echo, cardiac mri, 24 hour ecg, BP normal. Now 22 what can this be! strange angina!
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A 22-year old male asked:
Heart started doing pvcs like du dudu du dudu du du for 20-30 secs. Ecg, echo, cardiac MRI normal. Male 22. Got dysautonomia. Is this dangerous?
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A 26-year old male asked:
What's the chances of having a heart attack at 26? Dad had one at 50... Had extensive work up at mayo negative cardiac MRI stress echo and 3d echo....
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A 22-year old male asked:
18 year old comes in with angina symptoms, they have, ecg, stress ecg, cardiac mri&mra, echo, 24h ecg. Would you suggest non-cardiac cause mimicking?
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A 23-year old female asked:
With repeated ECG, holter monitors, ECHO, cardiac MRI and stress tests would long QT syndrome be obvious to diagnose?
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A 25-year old female asked:
I'm having chest pain when walking, shopping, housework. Is it possible I have syndrome x or coronary spasm? Had cardiac MRI, treadmill. Echo...
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