<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Right, an echocardiogram looks at the heart. However, I’m fairly certain that’s all it looks at. When Ember’s symptoms of labored breathing and pale membranes came up, the vet wanted to send her to a clinic for an ultrasound to look at her lungs/mediastinum/thorax and get a fine needle aspirate of whatever it was that showed up on the x-rays. This is pretty difficult to do, but it can be done. </div><div><br></div>On Jun 4, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Katherine K. <<a href="mailto:kathstix@gmail.com">kathstix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the clarification, Marsha! He got an ultrasound/echocardiogram. Heart looked normal.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Marsha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martia@lynxe.com" target="_blank">martia@lynxe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">EKG or ECG is for electrocardiogram, where electrodes patches are placed and electrical impulses traced to view the pattern of heart rhythm. ECHOcardiogram, is an ultrasound of the heart to actually visualize the heart as it's pumping.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 6/4/2014 11:57 AM, Katherine K. wrote:<br>
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Actually, when I said EKG I meant ultrasound. Or, are they the same? We did the xray first, then the ultrasound/EKG to get a closer look.<br>
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