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Echocardiography
Echocardiography is a painless, noninvasive test that can be performed at the hospital bedside or as an outpatient procedure. An echocardiogram uses high-frequency sound waves to provide a picture of the contracting heart, its valves and blood flow through the heart.
Since sound waves travel poorly through bone, lung and thick chest walls, ultrasonic examination may be difficult in certain people. These patients may have a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE), which uses a special probe passed into the esophagus so that an ultrasonic picture of the heart can be obtained without interference from the lungs or ribcage.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut's Echocardiography Laboratory is staffed by cardiologists and registered technologists. Morgan Werner, M.D., is medical director and Robert Malkin, M.D., is associate director.
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