What is the difference between adult and pediatric cardiac sonography?
Basically, the echocardiogram in adults and children is the same procedure. Echocardiography in adults will encompass a wide variety of cardiac pathology including acquired heart valve disease, disease of the heart muscle, coronary artery disease, intracardiac tumors, follow up on surgical procedures to name a few. Echocardiography in children, newborns and the unborn is primarily focused on congenital abnormalities that arise during pregnancy.
