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marsman
24th Aug 2006, 20:50
How much does a echocardiogram done privately cost +all the reports?? Just after a ball park figure. thanks

Loose rivets
24th Aug 2006, 21:40
Thirty trillion Martian glipthrotrops. Roughly.

One normally tries to be sensible on this forum, but I guess you'll know what I mean.

kui2324
25th Aug 2006, 12:46
Costs will no doubt depend on the going rate in your neck of the woods on Mars.

But I've recently been quoted £300-360 including report.

rhovsquared
25th Aug 2006, 16:41
Marsman Why do you need /want an echo?
might not even be the correct test, did your doc refer you for this?

an echo looks at defects in the motion of the heart and associated valves, and some give the 'ejection fraction' the amount of blood ejected from heart/amount not ejected :} stongly Indicted post-MI with S-T segment changes on EKG

M-mode looks closely at the 'wall of the heart' pericardium, epicardium, myocardium and endocardium:8

Doppler Studies try to determine venous and arterial blood flow, checks for flow defects. usually indicated if bruits [brooee's, Turbulence heard through the stethoscope] are heard over an artery, or venous blood flow is suspect

Clear Props!!! :}

rhov :)