Specialist services in the Echocardiography Department:
Echocardiography provides information about the heart’s size and shape, pumping function and areas of structural damage. It helps clinicians assess measures such as ejection fraction and diastolic function. Doppler ultrasound evaluates the movement of blood through the heart. Colour and spectral Doppler can help identify abnormal connections between chambers, leakage through valves and restricted valve opening.Conditions and features that may be assessed with echocardiography:
- Cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy
- Possible cardiac causes of chest pain
- Blood flow through the heart
- Leaking heart valves (valve regurgitation)
- The opening of heart valves
- Heart size, shape, wall thickness and wall movement
- Heart movement
- The heart’s pumping function
- Masses or infective growths around heart valves
- Problems involving the covering around the heart
- Problems in the major blood vessels entering or leaving the heart
- Blood clots within heart chambers
- Abnormal openings between heart chambers
Specialists working in Omid Hospital’s Echocardiography Department:
- Dr. Ehsan Mozaffari — Board-certified Cardiologist
- Dr. Neda Torkamani — Cardiologist
- Dr. Leila Taghipour-Sani — Cardiologist
- Dr. Kamran Ayinfar — Cardiologist with a fellowship in interventional cardiology