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Echocardiography facts for kids

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Image of a Heart using echocardiography

Echocardiography or Echocardiyogram is an ultrasound to view and hear the heart. Echocardiography is able to view two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and Doppler ultrasound to create images and sounds of the heart.

The echocardiography machine's are mainly used in hospitals.

Echocardiography dates back to the 1950s and was invented by Carl Helmuth Hertz and Inge Edler.

Images for kids

  • Sonographer doing pediatric echocardiography

    Sonographer doing an echocardiogram of a child

  • PLAX Mmode

    Echocardiogram in the parasternal long-axis view, showing a measurement of the heart's left ventricle

  • Apikal4D

    Three-dimensional echocardiogram of a heart viewed from the apex

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Ecocardiografía para niños

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