• Cardiovascular Medicine Consultation
• Preventive Care
• Diagnostic Testing
  • Nuclear stress testing
  • Echocardiography
  • Stress Echocardiography
  • Arterial and Venous Ultrasound
  • Ambulatory ECG Monitoring
  • Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Cardiac Angiography
  • Peripheral Vascular Angiography
  • Pacemaker/ICD evaluation and Routine Care
• Cardiac and Vascular Interventions

Echocardiography

Echocardiography is a diagnostic tool physicians can use to evaluate the structures and functions of the heart. Information about heart wall motion, heart attack damage or scarring, ejection fraction, valve function, congenital (present at birth) heart defects, and pericardial disease (the membrane surrounding the heart) can all be evaluated by an echocardiogram.

The echocardiogram uses ultrasound, or high-frequency sound waves, to create real-time, moving images of the heart. It is not painful, does not use radiation, and has few known risks.

Coastal Cardiology has the only echocardiography facility between Los Angeles and San Francisco which is certified by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.