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Question #11910
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Difference between ecg and echo - #11910

Aasha

I am a bit confused about the difference between ECG and echo. Last week I went to the hospital because I’ve been having these weird chest pains, kinda like a tight feeling sometimes too. The doctor ordered an ECG, and then later they did an echo, which sounded super similar but I don’t get how they’re different. Like, is an echo just fancy talk for ECG or what? Anyway, they said my ECG looked normal but the echo showed some stuff that didn't seem right. I mean, how can they look at my heart in two ways and come up with different results? I thought that that's just a heart thing and what’s weird is my friend had an echo years ago and said something about it being more detailed – can someone explain the difference between ECG and echo a bit more for me? I’m kind of feeling anxious about all that techy stuff, and I really want to understand how they’re supposed to work together or if one is better for diagnosis than the other? I’m just trying to figure out if I should be worried or not, you know?

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