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Auscultation
* Correctly auscultates the posterior chest moving side to side, top to bottom.
* diagnostic technique
* is diagnostic procedures
  - performed by listening through a stethoscope
  - simply the medical term for listening, usually through a stethoscope
* remains the principle method of detecting mitral stenosis.

### process | diagnostic technique | auscultation:

Cardiac auscultation
* is an important component of the cardiovascular assessment.
* skill acquired over years of training.

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Echocardiography
* Echocardiographies are diagnostic procedures.
* allows assessment of anatomy, function, hemodynamics, and blood flow noninvasively
  - doctors to visualize the anatomy, structure, and function of the heart
* changes sound waves into pictures that show the heart's size, shape, and movement.
* demonstrates in clear, graphic fashion the four cardiac chambers and four valves.
* improves emergency room diagnosis.
* is able to evaluate if the heart pumps normally or is weakened
  - extremely useful, however, in assessing the patient with a murmur
  - highly operator dependent
* predicts embolic events in infective endocarditis.
* refers to the imaging of the heart with ultrasound.
* reveals defects of the atrial and ventricular septae
  - vegetative lesions on aortic valve
* works like sonar.

### process | diagnostic technique | echocardiography:

Fetal echocardiography
* can help diagnose a variety of cardiac problems during pregnancy.
* helps pediatric cardiologists more accurately define the scope of the defect.
* is an ultrasound of a baby's heart before the baby is born
  - essential to rule out serious, potentially life-threatening anomalies
  - used to diagnose heart disease in the unborn child

Transesophageal echocardiography
* is performed during cardiac surgeries and cardiac catheterization.
* provides better resolution of the interatrial septum.

Electrocardiography
* can demonstrate cardiac arrhythmias that reflect the cause of stroke.
* is used to detect changes in the electrical activity of the heart
  - evaluate the cardiac rhythm and conduction
* shows a typical low-voltage pattern with bradycardia
  - atrial fibrillation
* testing method commonly used to determine if the heart has been damaged.
* uses electrical impulses to monitor the heart.

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Electromyography
* Electromyographies are diagnostic procedures.
* can confirm the presence of obturator neuropathy.
* comes of age.
* is also a valuable diagnostic tool, as is the measurement of various serum enzymes
  - useful in establishing a diagnosis
* measures the electrical activity present in selected muscles.
* needle study in which the electrical activity of muscle fibers is recorded.
* shows diffuse fibrillation potentials and positive sharp waves
  - fibrillation and fasciculations
  - only the electrical activity of normal contraction
* useful aid to diagnosis.

Lymphangiography
* allows the lymph nodes to be visualized on an x-ray.
* is an x-ray of the lymph glands and vessels after an injection of a dye.

### process | diagnostic technique | mammography:

Diagnostic mammography
* involves taking x-ray images of the breast.
* is performed to resolve a particular question related to the breast.

Digital mammography
* is quick and reduces anxiety and inconvenience.
* new breast cancer detection tool.