Talk:Echocardiography

Merge proposal

I'm against a merger of Echocardiology and Echocardiography:

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.

--Ekko 07:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

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!

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)

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)

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).

References

--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)

History section

Perhaps consider mentioning phonocardiogram being used before and some overlap with echocardiography. If nothing else add to the See Also section. MartinezMD (talk)

Wiki Education assignment: ECE584 - Medical Imaging Systems

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 March 2026 and 28 May 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Heldmacj, Xuqi555801 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Xuqi555801 (talk) 12:26, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Update Suggestions

Hi, I am updating the article for a class and was wondering if there were sections someone would like to see updated or sections we could add to this? I was thinking of updating sections that have no sources and possibly adding an AI section for the image processing of echocardiograms specifically. Any feedback would be appreciated Heldmacj (talk) 14:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)