# Echocardiography

Technology · id `core:echocardiography` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `f6f6f1b6f50379ed` (public)

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Browse, organ or system: Heart  
Browse, condition area: Heart failure; Valve and congenital heart disease  

## In plain language

Using ultrasound to record the size, motion and makeup of the heart and the tissues around it.

## Technical summary

MeSH concept M0006970, the preferred concept of descriptor D004452, describes echocardiography as recording the heart and the tissue near it with ultrasound, covering how large the structures are, how they move and what they are made of, and names the transthoracic approach as the standard one. Other approaches are not recorded here. This identity says nothing about accuracy, indications or the authorization of any device.

## Connected pages

- Measures the left ventricular ejection fraction: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (`cardio:lvef`)
- Used to look at heart valves: Heart valve disease (`cardio:heart-valve-disease`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 3a68f36f1825653dc087e16b79b67b8bad1dafb23569c172ba50242395247307
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14