{"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\/pt\/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>Diagnosticar a sua condi\u00e7\u00e3o com um ecocardiograma em MA e RI<\/h2>\n<p>Um ecocardiograma, tamb\u00e9m chamado eco ou ultrassom card\u00edaco, \u00e9 um ultrassom do cora\u00e7\u00e3o. Este procedimento card\u00edaco utiliza ondas sonoras para fornecer uma imagem 2D em tempo real das c\u00e2maras, v\u00e1lvulas e aorta do seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o em funcionamento, ou para criar imagens em movimento que mostram a estrutura, o tamanho e a forma como o cora\u00e7\u00e3o bombeia.<\/p>\n<p>Na Southcoast Health, os nossos cardiologistas usam ecocardiogramas no sudeste de Massachusetts e Rhode Island para diagnosticar e tratar doen\u00e7as card\u00edacas e vasculares, como ataque card\u00edaco, insufici\u00eancia card\u00edaca, co\u00e1gulos sangu\u00edneos, defeitos card\u00edacos e <a href=\"\/pt\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/structural-heartvalve-clinic\/\">doen\u00e7a das v\u00e1lvulas card\u00edacas<\/a>. \u00c9 seguro, n\u00e3o invasivo e n\u00e3o requer qualquer prepara\u00e7\u00e3o especial.<\/p>\n<h2>Quando \u00e9 que o ecocardiograma \u00e9 utilizado?<\/h2>\n<p>Este m\u00e9todo n\u00e3o \u00e9 invasivo e \u00e9 fi\u00e1vel, podendo ser utilizado em beb\u00e9s, crian\u00e7as e adultos. O ecocardiograma \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m o principal exame imagiol\u00f3gico utilizado para diagnosticar doen\u00e7as das v\u00e1lvulas card\u00edacas, como a estenose a\u00f3rtica grave.<\/p>\n<p>O seu m\u00e9dico pode recomendar um ecocardiograma se<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apresenta sintomas de uma doen\u00e7a card\u00edaca<\/strong>dor no peito, falta de ar, pernas e tornozelos inchados, fadiga inexplic\u00e1vel, desmaios ou tonturas<\/li>\n<li><strong>O seu m\u00e9dico ouviu sons card\u00edacos irregulares<\/strong> (sopro no cora\u00e7\u00e3o) com um estetosc\u00f3pio<\/li>\n<li><strong>O seu m\u00e9dico est\u00e1 a monitorizar a sua sa\u00fade card\u00edaca<\/strong> depois de ter sido submetido a uma cirurgia, acidente vascular cerebral ou ataque card\u00edaco, ou de forma cont\u00ednua se tiver uma doen\u00e7a card\u00edaca existente, como insufici\u00eancia card\u00edaca ou doen\u00e7a arterial coron\u00e1ria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>O que esperar de uma ecografia na Southcoast Health<\/h2>\n<p>Quando vem a Southcoast para fazer um ecocardiograma, um ecografista card\u00edaco registado efectua o procedimento, que demora cerca de uma hora. Deitar-se-\u00e1 de costas ou sobre o lado esquerdo e o ecografista far\u00e1 rolar suavemente uma sonda de ultra-sons (transdutor) sobre a superf\u00edcie do seu t\u00f3rax. O transdutor envia e recebe ondas sonoras para produzir uma imagem do seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o num monitor. Este m\u00e9todo \u00e9 indolor e n\u00e3o tem riscos ou complica\u00e7\u00f5es conhecidas. Os resultados do exame s\u00e3o interpretados por um cardiologista.<\/p>\n<p>Outros tipos de ecocardiogramas s\u00e3o os ecocardiogramas transesof\u00e1gicos (ETE), os ecocardiogramas de esfor\u00e7o e os ecocardiogramas com Doppler. Podem tamb\u00e9m ser utilizadas t\u00e9cnicas mais avan\u00e7adas para ajudar a orientar determinados procedimentos, nomeadamente em doentes do nosso <a href=\"\/pt\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/open-heart-surgery\/\">Cirurgia card\u00edaca<\/a> ou <a href=\"\/pt\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/structural-heartvalve-clinic\/\">Programas estruturais do cora\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a>e envolvem tecnologia 3D para obter imagens mais pormenorizadas.<\/p>\n<p>Partilharemos os resultados consigo o mais rapidamente poss\u00edvel e poderemos tamb\u00e9m pedir outros exames para obter uma imagem mais completa da sua sa\u00fade card\u00edaca.<\/p>\n<p>Os nossos m\u00e9dicos querem ajud\u00e1-lo a alcan\u00e7ar a sua melhor sa\u00fade card\u00edaca - <a href=\"\/pt\/doctors\/?specialties=cardiology&amp;search=\">encontrar um cardiologista<\/a> perto de si hoje para ver se um ecocardiograma \u00e9 o procedimento certo para si.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Southcoast Health ajuda a detetar anomalias card\u00edacas, oferecendo servi\u00e7os de eco em Fall River, Dartmouth, New Bedford e Wareham, MA, bem como em Providence e Middletown, RI.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnose Your Condition with an Echocardiogram in MA &amp; RI An echocardiogram, also called echo or cardiac ultrasound, is an ultrasound of your heart. 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