Echocardiogram

I had an echocardiogram done this afternoon, at the request of my cardiologist and UCLA Transplant Center’s cardiologist. The procedure is basically a heart ultrasound and it only took 15 minutes. Weird that such a short test can affect the rest of my life.

The tech had me take off my shirt and lie down on an examination bed. Most of the test was done lying on my left, which is not that great for me. Even almost a year after the bypass surgery, I still feel pressure when I lie down on my left. I think I mentioned in a previous post that my cardiologist wanted to double check the LV EF (ejection fraction) number since my latest results from the Lexiscan was pretty low. She said the Lexiscan EF results were not as accurate as an echocardiogram; let’s hope that’s true and the results are better this time.