Echocardiography
Disease Information
Overview
An echocardiography is a procedure used to assess the heart's structures and function.
- also called echo, cardiac ultrasound or ultrasonography, cardiac Doppler, transthoracic echocardiography, or TTE
- used to diagnose aneurysms, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart defects, congestive heart failure, pericarditis and valve disease


