Echocardiogram. What?

Echocardiography

is a noninvasive examination that uses the principles of ultrasonic refraction and reflection to measure the structure of the heart and large blood vessels through the chest wall and soft tissue to understand whether the systolic and diastolic functions of the heart and ventricular blood flow velocity are normal, so as to facilitate the differential diagnosis of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, aortic aneurysm and other diseases. Echocardiography is divided into two dimensional echocardiography, M-mode echocardiography, Doppler echocardiography three types, the patient can choose the corresponding items according to their own conditions to do the examination.