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Trends and Advances in Echocardiography

An echocardiogram is a test that utilizes high-frequency sound waves to capture images of your heart. The sound waves create a picture of the heart’s chambers, valves, walls and blood vessels. Doctors and medical professionals then use these images to better diagnose and treat patients with heart disease or other ailments. Thankfully, the medical industry is steadily advancing. There are new trends and advancements in echocardiography that ensure the procedure remains relevant and useful.

Improving Reproducibility

The most significant issue with echocardiography is the variation between specialists, which often leads to distinct measurements for the same situation. Operator variability limits the use of cardiac ultrasounds as a triage tool.

Recent advancements, such as 3-D echo, may solve this issue by enabling volume dataset acquisition, instead of specific slices. A 3-D volume acquisition allows your cardiologist to review an exam better and select the optimal images during the post-processing phase. Some high-end ultrasound systems already perform this task automatically.

Image Quality Improvements

For a procedure designed to capture images for treatment solutions, echocardiography suffers from poor image quality. That fact is changing, however. New imaging technology is being developed to enhance image clarity and provide physicians with personalized image quality for every patient.

The very same technology includes numerous workflow enhancements to help medical specialists efficiently and effectively manage an increased workload of new patients. Efficiency is the name of the game, after all.

What This Means for You

While these trends and advancements may seem overly technical to the layman, their implementation means quite a bit for patients. If you’re scheduled to undergo an echocardiography procedure, the results could mean life-saving treatment.

These innovative technology advancements ensure your medical practitioner better diagnoses and treats heart conditions.

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