An ultrasound examination is especially helpful for diseases of the heart, and when used to examine the heart, the procedure is called echocardiography. The thickness of the heart walls, the size of its chambers, and the motion of the valves and other cardiac structures are all measured, allowing an assessment of the heart’s function. Doppler ultrasound is another form of cardiac ultrasound in which the direction and speed of blood flow in the heart and blood vessels can be measured. Color-flow Doppler technology makes it even easier to observe the flow of blood through the heart and important blood vessels. Some ultrasound machines can measure the velocity and direction of blood flowing in and out of the four chambers of the heart.
Some diseases can be diagnosed because they have a specific ultrasound appearance, while other conditions have non-specific ultrasound findings.

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