An echocardiogram is a safe and non-invasive heart ultrasound that helps detect valve disease and cardiac dysfunction early. On National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day, cardiologist Dr Raj Kumar ...

An echocardiogram, or echo, is a test that helps doctors check on your heart health. The test, which is a kind of ultrasound, uses harmless sound waves to create a real-time moving picture of your ...

Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

Develop an expertise in examining the heart using ultrasound technology as you gain the skills necessary to excel in this exciting health care field. Echocardiography focuses on the evaluation of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An AI model accurately distinguished cardiac amyloidosis from other phenotypic mimics. The model also showed ...

Adults and children with congenital heart disease depend on regular echocardiograms to track the health of their hearts and until now they had to travel to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center to do ...

Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an important problem in developing countries; however, many cases are detected only when the disease has progressed to cardiac failure. Screening can ...

After former Ohio State lineman Ben Christman died of cardiac arrest, his father pushes for echocardiogram screenings for Ohio high school athletes.

Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) devices are advanced ultrasound tools used to capture detailed, real-time images of the heart from inside its chambers. These catheter-based devices assist ...

1 Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3 Julius Center for ...