💖 Peek Inside Your Heart: What is Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)? 💖
Ever wonder how doctors get those super-detailed pictures of your heart? Meet Transesophageal Echocardiography, or TEE!
What It Is (The Basics)
Think of it as an ultrasound, but from a VIP location.
A standard ultrasound is done over your chest, which means the sound waves have to travel through skin, muscle, and bone—making the pictures sometimes fuzzy.
With TEE, a thin, flexible tube with a tiny ultrasound camera (a transducer) on the tip is gently passed down your throat into your esophagus (the tube food travels down).
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