{"id":17747,"date":"2025-07-08T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/echocardiogram\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:17:10","slug":"echocardiogram","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/echocardiogram\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecocardiograma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<h2>Diagnostique su enfermedad con un ecocardiograma en MA y RI<\/h2>\n<p>Un ecocardiograma, tambi\u00e9n llamado eco o ecograf\u00eda card\u00edaca, es una ecograf\u00eda del coraz\u00f3n. Este procedimiento card\u00edaco utiliza ondas sonoras para proporcionar una imagen 2D en tiempo real de las cavidades del coraz\u00f3n, las v\u00e1lvulas y la aorta, o crear im\u00e1genes en movimiento que muestran la estructura del coraz\u00f3n, su tama\u00f1o y la forma en que bombea.<\/p>\n<p>En Southcoast Health, nuestros cardi\u00f3logos utilizan ecocardiogramas en el sureste de Massachusetts y Rhode Island para diagnosticar y tratar afecciones cardiacas y vasculares como infarto de miocardio, insuficiencia cardiaca, co\u00e1gulos sangu\u00edneos, defectos cardiacos y <a href=\"\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/structural-heartvalve-clinic\/\">valvulopat\u00eda card\u00edaca<\/a>. Es seguro, no invasivo y no requiere preparaci\u00f3n especial.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00bfCu\u00e1ndo se realiza un ecocardiograma?<\/h2>\n<p>Este m\u00e9todo no es invasivo y es fiable, y puede utilizarse en beb\u00e9s, ni\u00f1os y adultos por igual. El ecocardiograma es tambi\u00e9n la principal prueba de imagen utilizada para diagnosticar valvulopat\u00edas, como la estenosis a\u00f3rtica grave.<\/p>\n<p>Su m\u00e9dico puede recomendarle un ecocardiograma si:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Presenta s\u00edntomas de una enfermedad card\u00edaca<\/strong>como dolor en el pecho, dificultad para respirar, hinchaz\u00f3n de piernas y tobillos, fatiga inexplicable, desmayos o mareos<\/li>\n<li><strong>Su m\u00e9dico escuch\u00f3 ruidos card\u00edacos irregulares<\/strong> (soplo card\u00edaco) con un estetoscopio<\/li>\n<li><strong>Su m\u00e9dico controla su salud cardiaca<\/strong> despu\u00e9s de una intervenci\u00f3n quir\u00fargica, un ictus o un infarto de miocardio, o de forma continuada si padece una cardiopat\u00eda, como insuficiencia card\u00edaca o enfermedad coronaria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Qu\u00e9 esperar de una ecograf\u00eda en Southcoast Health<\/h2>\n<p>Cuando acuda a Southcoast para someterse a un ecocardiograma, un ecografista cardiaco colegiado realizar\u00e1 el procedimiento, que dura aproximadamente una hora. Se tumbar\u00e1 boca arriba o sobre el costado izquierdo, y el ecografista le pasar\u00e1 suavemente una sonda de ultrasonidos (transductor) por la superficie del t\u00f3rax. El transductor env\u00eda y recibe ondas sonoras que producen una imagen de su coraz\u00f3n en un monitor. Este m\u00e9todo es indoloro y no presenta riesgos ni complicaciones conocidos. Los resultados de la prueba son interpretados por un cardi\u00f3logo.<\/p>\n<p>Otros tipos de ecocardiograma son el ecocardiograma transesof\u00e1gico (ETE), el ecocardiograma de esfuerzo y el ecocardiograma Doppler. Tambi\u00e9n se pueden utilizar t\u00e9cnicas m\u00e1s avanzadas para ayudar a guiar determinados procedimientos, en particular a los pacientes de nuestra <a href=\"\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/open-heart-surgery\/\">Cirug\u00eda card\u00edaca<\/a> o <a href=\"\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/structural-heartvalve-clinic\/\">Programas Cardioestructurales<\/a>y utilizan tecnolog\u00eda 3D para obtener im\u00e1genes m\u00e1s detalladas.<\/p>\n<p>Le comunicaremos los resultados lo antes posible y es posible que solicitemos otras pruebas para obtener una imagen m\u00e1s completa de su salud cardiaca.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestros m\u00e9dicos quieren ayudarle a alcanzar su mejor salud card\u00edaca - <a href=\"\/es\/doctors\/?specialties=cardiology&amp;search=\">busque un cardi\u00f3logo<\/a> cerca de usted hoy mismo para ver si un ecocardiograma es el procedimiento adecuado para usted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Southcoast Health ayuda a detectar anomal\u00edas card\u00edacas ofreciendo servicios de ecograf\u00eda en Fall River, Dartmouth, New Bedford y Wareham, MA, as\u00ed como en Providence y Middletown, RI.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnostique su condici\u00f3n con un ecocardiograma en MA y RI Un ecocardiograma, tambi\u00e9n llamado eco o ultrasonido card\u00edaco, es un ultrasonido de su coraz\u00f3n. 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