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1965 Sci. News Let. 19 June 386/2 The unique feature of echocardiography is its ability to display and photograph sonar echoes on a TV screen as well as record them on a direct writing device.

1976 I. G. McDonald Echocardiography i. 7 Examination of the heart by ultrasound was initially called ‘Ultrasound-cardiography’ but the name used now is ‘Echocardiography’. The technique was first used by Hertz and Edler in Sweden in 1953.

1977 Lancet 13 Aug. 313/2 Echocardiography was done in the standard manner; prolapse of the mitral valve was diagnosed only during sinus beats.

1989 Lancet 3 June 1223/1 Echocardiography showed no difference in the ventricular wall mass between the treatment periods.

1961 Acta Med. Scand. 370 (Suppl.) 59 (heading) Echograms from heart structures in living man. The ultrasoundcardiogram.]

1966 B. L. Segal et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 195 161/1 An echocardiogram is the graphic registration of ultrasound waves reflected from the heart.

1966 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 17 Feb. 380/1 The noun ‘echocardiogram’ and the adjective ‘echocardiographic’ succinctly describe the ultrasound cardiac recording.

1970 R. Ilmurzyńska in Proc. Conf. Ultrasonics in Biol. & Med. 137 Mitral echocardiograms were recorded using a Polish ultrasonocardiograph UKG-1.

1987 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Aug. 305/2 11 of the 34 patients without any of the predictors had an abnormal echocardiogram, in two cases showing left atrial or ventricular thrombi.

1977 Lancet 19 Feb. 402/2 Most books have been directed towards those who wish to become expert echocardiographers.

1972 H. Feigenbaum Echocardiography p. viii The echocardiographic laboratory from which most of this book has been derived.