Home > Term: exercise stress echocardiogram
exercise stress echocardiogram
A procedure that combines echocardiography with exercise to evaluate the heart's function at rest and with exertion. Echocardiography is an imaging procedure that creates a picture of the heart's movement, valves, and chambers using high-frequency sound waves that come from a hand held wand placed on your chest. Echo is often combined with Doppler ultrasound and color Doppler to evaluate blood flow across the heart's valves.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Health care
- Category: Heart disease
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