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Echocardiography uses high-frequency sound waves (also called ultra- sound) to produce a moving image of your heart. The sound waves are introduced into your body through a handheld device called a trans- ducer. They bounce off the structures and ?uids in the heart and return as echoes through the transducer. The echoes are converted into […]

As with other stress tests, an exercise echocardiogram shows how your heart functions when it is working harder. It is most often done to con- ?rm or rule out coronary artery disease. The moving image enables your doctor to see where blockages are occurring. A stress echocardiogram may be done in a doctor’s of?ce or […]