Talk:Echocardiography

History and Tech. explanation?
There's no history section describing the development of the technique, and no explanation of how it works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.60.40.217 (talk) 15:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah - that's what I was specifically looking for. If someone knows this stuff, please add it to the page.  It would be appreciated. 99.245.230.104 (talk) 20:16, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I'm against a merger of Echocardiology and Echocardiography: --Ekko 07:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Echocardiography describes the art and science of excamining the heart by ultrasound. The article of echocardiology describes one of several professions who performs echocardiography.
 * 2) Echocardiology (shouldn't it be echocardiologist?) is a seldom used term. (Echocardiographic) sonographer or echo-tech (slightly condecending) is more common
 * 3) The article about echocardiology is valid only in the USA (and perhaps Canada?). An article about sonographers in diferent countries would be interesting though.
 * 1) I was examined six times this past week by echocardiographers (1 TEE and 5 TTE), while at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston.  I have profound respect and admiration for those dedicated and skilled professionals.  Thank you!

echocardiology
I practice non-invasive cardiology in the United States. I don't know a single MD who uses the term echocardiology in clinical practive. Is this a term used in other countries? Here we refer to it as echocardiography. Should we remove this title?
 * Done. "Echocardiology" is now a redirect to Cardiac sonographer.--Ekko 21:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

In the US, physicians from a number of specialties perform echocardiographic procedures. The generic term echocardiographer refers to a physician who performs and interprets echocardiographic examinations. A sonographer performs the examination, but does not have a medical degree.

I'm only familiar with the procedure being referred to as "stress echo" or just "echo" - but either way the overall discipline should be defined as echocardiography - due to the topographical nature/component of the 2D visual assessment process... however, an argument could be made for "echocardiology" because a complex understanding and study of data acquired is necessary for diagnosis. If the topic of discussion is to define the proper nomenclature I think echocardiography is proper.

stress echocardiogram
I was considering making a redirect of "stress echocardiogram" to this page, but I thought doing so might delay the creation of such a page which might very well be a whole page to itself & I am surprised that there isn't already. Nagelfar (talk) 05:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Indications section
An anonymous user deleted the indications section which I had posted some time ago. This user gave no explanation. There should be an indications section of some kind in this article and I wish I had an explicit explanation of when consensus in the field says that the test is indicated. Right now the content I put into that section does lack that information and only gives general information, which I still think has some place in this article.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   20:18, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I notice people routinely remove sections without explanations. Less information is not necessarily better for the general reader coming here for basic information. Returning the section was a good idea. 173.49.142.213 (talk) 23:45, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Anatomical Intelligence
I work with Philips Healthcare and one of our recent projects has resulted in the development of “Anatomical Intelligence.” Anatomical Intelligence describes the use of organ modeling technology allowing clinicians to navigate and manipulate 3D images in terms of anatomies rather than X/Y/Z coordinates. I believe this is a significant contribution to ultrasound technology and would add value to the Echocardiography page under the “Three-dimensional echocardiography” section. Per Wikipedia’s Conflict of Interest policy, I have made every effort to ensure that my potential contribution has been written with a Neutral Point of View and welcome any feedback on the information below before contributing an edit to the page.

Approved, go ahead. Wilipino (talk) 11:59, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Three-dimensional echocardiography technology may feature Anatomical Intelligence, or the use of organ modeling technology to automatically identify anatomy based on generic models. All generic models reference a dataset of anatomical information that uniquely adapts to variability in patient anatomy to perform specific tasks. Built on feature recognition and segmentation algorithms, this technology can provide patient-specific three-dimensional modeling of the heart and other aspects of the anatomy including the brain, lungs, liver, kidney, rib cage and vertebra column. SarahHaeger (talk) 21:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Echocardiographical views
This article needs to be elaborated with the Echocardiographical views as mentioned here.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 05:46, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Echocardiography videos
There are a couple hundred video files available in commons:Category:Echocardiography and its subcategories, some of which might be useful here or for related articles. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

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"cardiac echo" or simply "echo"
"An echocardiogram, often referred to as a cardiac echo or simply an echo ...". Are "cardiac echo" and simply "echo" formal terms or colloquial shortenings? There is no citation to check. Nurg (talk) 04:14, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

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Health Society
This term is used as if everyone knew what a Health Society is. I don't. I suspect it is a USA euphemism for a medical insurance company. Can someone who knows fix it please? MrDemeanour (talk) 13:47, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Please update with: "A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager"
Please briefly add content on/from this study or, more generally, on this type of heart imaging. It's featured in 2023 in science like so:

"Researchers report the development of a viable wearable continuous heart ultrasound imager."

I think it would probably be good to at least very briefly mention it here (they're also using echocardiography aren't they? at the least they compare it "with a commercial device in four primary views of echocardiography").

Also uploaded the image on the right from the study in case it's useful somewhere (you can crop it).

--Prototyperspective (talk) 13:42, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Amazing invention! But I am not for including it, since it seems that is still a detail. More researchers should comment on it, in order to include it. Not everything published needs to be added to the article. Also, medical-news.net fails WP:MEDRS. This is not a strong opinion though, if other users find it useful, then I wont object. Cinadon36 16:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)