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Echocardiogram - Articles
Stress Test, Echocardiogram, Check up
by
Lauren
Posted
Fri 08 May 2009 12:00am
That’s what’s up for tomorrow morning. I head up to Columbia first thing and I expect to be there for hours.
It’s a big HEART day tomorrow. We’ll find out lots of information. I am nervous. I hate the stress test. They plug my nose (because I get a pulmonary stress test) and I have to breathe through a tube while I do a cardio wo ...
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Echocardiogram Results
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StacieSmith
Posted
Thu 13 Aug 2009 12:00am
Clap Your Hands!!
I took this picture of Garrett clapping recently at a Wiggles Show. I was reminded it of it today while we were bowling...in our living room, nonetheless. I hit only 4 of the pins on my first try. But, Garrett turned and looked at me with a look of complete amazement at my "accomplishment" and started clapping. So sw ...
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Echocardiogram
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Rachel M.
Posted
Thu 10 Jun 2010 12:09am
Today, I went to have Echocardiogram done. I’m home safe now.
I enjoyed the easy and nice drive to Logan Heart Centre.
I had organised Go Via account... Echocardiogram I had at a hospital. She explained the sound I hear occasionally is my vascular sound. Through out, she asked me to breathe in, breathe out, hold breath, or breathe away
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Chronicles of the Heart, part 12 – the echocardiogram…
by
Ron
Posted
Fri 03 Jun 2011 6:01am
notes, but it’s not my list and is, in fact, wrong.
So, on to this week, and my echocardiogram, during which the technician expressed the opinion that I really should have had... to the notes as she’d forgotten – in the space of a few minutes. And that so annoyed me that I completely forgot to ask about severity. She plans to repeat the echo in three years time
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Plumbing the depths – Part 2 – follow up…
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Ron
Posted
Wed 30 Mar 2011 8:03am
GP just been – amazing what a stroppy letter can accomplish! Examined me , confirmed heart failure, tinkered with my meds and is arranging an echo-cardiogram.
The question remaining is just how much damage has been done as a result of two months doing fuck all?
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Turn On Your Heart Light
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Lacie H.
Posted
Mon 25 Aug 2008 6:33pm
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... these symptoms today ~ knowing that my heart was going to be scrutinized. The ultra sound tech could tell that I was struggling to breathe ~ I just hope that the echocardiogram is a 'pass
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Echo-Stress Test Results
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Robert S.
Posted
Thu 09 Jul 2009 5:21pm
Wednesday's Echo-Stress Test was inconclusive - at least when it comes to finding the cause of my symptoms. However, it definitely confirmed something is not as it should... feet away from my nurse and the doctors she worked under.
The test went as follows: I was hooked up to an EKG machine, then given a Echo-cardiogram [ultrasound of my heart
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Time to deal with Cardiology and Hannah’s ASD
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Carrie Ostrea
Posted
Tue 13 Oct 2009 10:04pm
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... serious, it can be monitored for the first few years of life to see if it will close on its own.
So Tuesday AM is the sedated echocardiogram and Wednesday AM is the consultation
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Cardiology update
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Carrie Ostrea
Posted
Sat 24 Apr 2010 3:55am
Finally, we have something that we can write off for another 6 to 9 months!
Hannah had her echocardiogram and EKG done. Her EKG looked normal, and her echocardiogram... of thickness. Hannah’s aorta is 1.80 cm — just 0.03 larger than the high end of normal! It also has not increased since the last echocardiogram done 6 months ago.
This is great news
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