Echocardiogram

Echo | TEE | Stress Echo

Echocardiography is the process of mapping the heart through echoes. The pulses are sent into the chest and the high-frequency sound waves bounce off of the heart's walls and valves. The returning echoes are electronically plotted to produce a picture of the heart called an echocardiogram.  Echocardiography is a modern technique that allows the physician to evaluate the heart without inserting any tubes or wires. This "non-invasive" method, like the sonogram pregnant mothers now routinely receive, uses sound waves, which reflect off the heart structures (hence the term echo) and are recorded to produce an image of the heart.