An electrocardiogram and echocardiogram (echo) are both noninvasive imaging tests that look at the functioning of your heart and can help identify heart disease. An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) and ...

Mar. 23 -- (HealthDay News) -- Echocardiogram is a diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound waves to create images of the heart's anatomy. The procedure uses non-invasive electrodes that are attached ...

Philips’ 3D intracardiac echocardiography catheter is ready for its close-up—its extreme, in vivo close-up, that is. A little less than a year after securing 510(k) clearance from the FDA, the ...

64-year-old female with refractory angina and diffuse 3-vessel disease in whom percutaneous myocardial laser revascularization was attempted. During the procedure the patient developed severe angina, ...

Among some of the best hospitals in the United States, the prices of different cardiovascular tests and procedures can vary substantially, sometimes by as much as tenfold, according to a new analysis.

Readers of this morning’s New York Times story on the wildly varying charges levied for routine echocardiograms may have been left with the erroneous impression that it is nearly impossible to learn ...

Scottie, Shirley, and Katrina, three of the Chattanooga Zoo’s seven chimpanzees, will have echocardiograms at the Chattanooga Zoo on Thursday, March 15. William Warren, M.D., cardiologist at The ...