TRANSTHORACIC (TTE) ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Our Offerings
- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
- Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG)
- Cardiac biomarkers
- Echocardiography
- Transthoracic (TTE) Echocardiography
- Transesophageal echocardiogram
- Stress echocardiography
- Treadmill test
- Holter monitor (or ambulatory electrocardiography device)
- Head up Tilt table test
- Defibrillation
- CT Angiogram
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (Cardiac MRI)
Indications:
- For the evaluation of pericardial effusion
- The left ventricle apex is better visualized from the transthoracic apical view.
- The inferior vena cava: IVC and sub-hepatic veins are useful for the estimation of the volume status, can not be visualized with TEE.
- Doppler studies are better from transthoracic apical view
- The left atrium can not be appreciated reliably with TEE
