What is it ?
Echocardiography is a specialized ultrasound imaging of the heart. It is done with help of a blunt flexible probe which is rotated over chest to send ultrasound waves to heart and receive the reflected waves to construct the image of heart and its functioning in real time. It is called an non-invasive procedure since it does not involve any injections. Patient will lie down on an examining table.

A technician places some lubricant and a transducer on the chest. The transducer beams high frequency sound waves at heart. This information is returned, or echoed, to the transducer and converted into a picture, which is recorded on videotape. Then the technician moves the transducer to several locations on chest until the picture is complete.