Common indication for echocardiography – MCQ – Answer
|Common indication for echocardiography – MCQ – Answer
Which of the following is not a common indication for echocardiography? – Correct answer: d) Analysis of cardiac arrhythmia
Analysis of cardiac arrhythmia is better done using an ECG.
In patients with cardiac arrhythmia, echocardiography is useful in looking for underlying structural heart disease. Echocardiography can be used to assess arrhythmias in fetus when ECG is not feasible. But it is not very accurate and is quite cumbersome, time consuming process.