Echocardiogram - Articles
Turn On Your Heart Light
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Lacie H.
I had my pre-surgical echocardiogram echocardiogram today to make sure that my heart can withstand the stress of two surgeries back to back. Today was not the best day for my heart to show up for a ...
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Time to deal with Cardiology and Hannah’s ASD
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Carrie Ostrea
... were at the National Institutes of Health in July. It “most likely” has nothing to do with her Gaucher’s Disease, but we need to deal with it anyway. She is having a sedated echocardiogram tomorrow morning. I’m very anxious about it. I know it is “just” oral sedation, but how the heck are they going to get her to swallow it? This is my control f ...
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Welcome Back
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Josh Hopkins
... will be more effective and much quicker. The question is why is she having such a difficult time with recovery and what is the underlying factor causing the excess fluid. An echocardiogram will show if the regurgatatuon from her valves is contributing the most or if it is a combination of factors.
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Genetic Testing For Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Denise B.
This morning I went with my eldest daughter to take her three children to their pediatric cardiologist for their annual EKG and Echocardiograms. They need to be tested because it's a possibility I may have passed a gene variance ( mutation) on to my children and their offspring for Hypertrophic Cardio ...
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A beautiful heart
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Catherine
A fetal echocardiogram today showed a beautiful heart, chambers, valves, arches, veins all beautiful. How much we've learnt about cardiology in the last year, how easily we kept up wi ...
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Hannah’s Atrial Septal Defect
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Carrie Ostrea
I have to bring a copy of the NIH’s echocardiogram to Dr. B, our pediatrician, today. They have all the paperwork ready for the cardiology referral, but they are just waiting this to get it completed.It is unli ...
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First Anniversary Of Open Heart Surgery
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Denise B.
... wonders. I no longer have the 'squeezing' sensations in my heart, shortness of breath, dizziness has never returned, and I feel good. My daughters are all up to date on their echocardiograms and don't need retested for quite a while. Out of 6 of my siblings, four have had echos and don't show any symptoms of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy .
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Gabi Went To The Cardiologist Today
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Shannon ..
... ior! I don't know why but I have to literally lay on her until she tires out to get her blood pressure and EKG done, but then she will cooperate without any problems for the echocardiogram. How weird is that? So now we have to try to keep her 24 holter monitor on. Here she is after we came home:
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Hypertension in the Elderly
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Tom Plamondon
Case report:79 y.o. female with fluctuating hypertension-hypotension and continued complaints of dizziness and slight headache. Complete workup including echocardiogram, EEG, head CT, basic chemistry, CBC, TSH are all normal. LDL is 200.PMH: arthritis and abnormal cholesterolMedication includes cardioselective beta blocker, AR ...
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