An Echocardiogram (or cardiac ultrasound) is an ultrasound of the heart used to measures blood flow through the heart, heart valve structure, and heart wall function.
Keith Brown woke up one Saturday morning in May feeling anxious. It was something he’d felt before, but today would be much different. “Later that morning, I had tightness in my chest, and the anxious feeling was still there. It was not easy to breathe,” Keith said. “My wife said, ‘We’re going to the emergency room.’” It was there that Keith learned he had suffered a heart attack. The McLaren Flint cardiac team discovered a 90 percent blockage in Keith’s left main coronary artery– often call...