Right, an echocardiogram looks at the heart. However, I’m fairly certain that’s all it looks at. When Ember’s symptoms of labored breathing and pale membranes came up, the vet wanted to send her to a clinic for an ultrasound to look at her lungs/mediastinum/thorax and get a fine needle aspirate of whatever it was that showed up on the x-rays. This is pretty difficult to do, but it can be done.
On Jun 4, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Katherine K. <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, Marsha! He got an ultrasound/echocardiogram. > Heart looked normal. > > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Marsha <[email protected]> wrote: > EKG or ECG is for electrocardiogram, where electrodes patches are placed and > electrical impulses traced to view the pattern of heart rhythm. > ECHOcardiogram, is an ultrasound of the heart to actually visualize the heart > as it's pumping. > > Marsha > > > On 6/4/2014 11:57 AM, Katherine K. wrote: > Actually, when I said EKG I meant ultrasound. Or, are they the same? We did > the xray first, then the ultrasound/EKG to get a closer look. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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