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Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)

A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) is a special echocardiogram that takes ultrasound images of your heart from inside your esophagus (swallowing or food tube).

If you have a TEE, you will swallow a flexible tube (the size of an index finger) that has a small ultrasound transducer on the end. Once you have swallowed the tube, the doctor will take close-up ultrasound pictures of your heart.


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Source: Allina Patient Education, Helping Your Heart, fourth edition, cvs-ahc-90648

First published: 10/04/2002
Last updated: 06/01/2007

Reviewed by: Allina Patient Education experts

 

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Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)


Allina facilities that perform TEE

Abbott Northwestern Cardiovascular Services

Buffalo Hospital Cardiac Center

Mercy Hospital's Heart & Vascular Center

United Hospital's Nasseff Heart Center

Unity Hospital's Heart & Vascular Center

 

 

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