Links
General echocardiography information
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See my heart
This website by the American Society of Echocardiography provides comprehensive and easily understandable information about echocardiography. Although the content is not limited to congenital heart defects, the website provides a very good introduction to the topic. The excellent animations and videos provided on this website are particularly interesting and very recommendable.
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Echo in context
This website provides details about a yearly satellite video teleconference on echocardiography. It offers detailed texts, including basic knowledge of the function and use of echocardiography (“learn the basics”). One of these texts deals with echocardiography in congenital heart disease and describes in detail the most common heart defects. This website is recommended for anyone who is interested in detailed and more profound, scientific information about the topic.
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Yale School of Medicine: Atlas of echocardiography
This Atlas of Echocardiography contains a wide range of pictures, animations and echocardiography videos illustrating and explaining various parts and malfunctions of the heart. Although the information provided by the Yale University is directed at medical professionals, it is also very informative for non-medics who are interested in the heart and its visualisation.
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Yale School of Medicine: Technique of echocardiography
This website, which is also provided by the Yale University, provides an excellent illustration of the technique of (transthoracic) echocardiography. In addition to an animation explaining the imaging procedure, you can also view two good examples of ultrasound recordings.
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Your total health: Echocardiogram
This website by yourtotalhealth - a consumer oriented website offered by NBC and ivillage - provides an informative overview of the different types of echocardiography. The images and videos included in the text are especially good, since they provide an excellent illustration of examination procedures and the results to be expected.
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HeartSite.com: Echocardiogram
This website provides an informative overview of the technique of echocardiography, including some good illustrations. The text is part of the educational website Heartsite.com, which is aimed at patients with heart disease. It is provided by American medical professionals in the field of cardiology. Although the information is not limited to congenital heart defects, its description of the diagnostic procedures concerns all patients with heart-related problems. The website also contains special sections on transoesophageal echocardiography and stress echocardiography (see below).
Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
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Anaesthetist.com: Transoesophageal echocardiography
This guide to transoesophageal echocardiography is intended for medical students or medical professionals. It includes various elaborate mathematical formulae that are probably only understood by people trained in this field. However, the text is a pleasure to read for interested non-medics, since it presents detailed information in an unpretentious way. You should be familiar with the basic medical terminology to fully understand the content.
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HeartSite.com: Transoesophageal echocardiography
This website provides an informative overview of the technique of transoesophageal echocardiography, including some fairly good illustrations. The site is part of Heartsite.com (see above).
Stress echocardiography
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National Library of Medicine: Stress echocardiography
In this section of the MedlinePlus website (a service provided by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health), you can view a multimedia presentation about the procedure and functioning of stress echocardiography. You can also download a text version. Because the content of this site addresses patients, it is easy to understand and explains everything in detail.
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HeartSite.com: Stress echocardiography
This website provides an informative overview of the procedure of stress echocardiography, including some fairly good illustrations. The site is part of Heartsite.com (see above).
Three-dimensional echocardiography
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Philips Medical: Live 3D Echo Image Library
In this section of the Philips website you can view several examples of three-dimensional echo recordings to get an impression of this new technique. However, you should keep in mind that the contents of other sections of this site are commercial.