Echocardiography

This is an examination which uses sound waves to create images of the heart. That image is much more detailed than a simple radiography. This enables the doctors to observe the heart beating. It also shows the heart valves and other structures of the heart. In an echocardiography there is no exposure to radiation.

It can help to detect:

• Abnormal heart valves
• Abnormal heart rhythms
• Congenital heart disease
• Damage of the myocardium as a result of a heart attack
• Heart murmurs
• Inflammation (pericarditis) or liquid in the sac around the heart (pericardial effusion)
• Infection in or around the heart valves (infectious endocarditis)
• Pulmonary hypertension
• The function of the bombing of the heart for persons with cardiac insufficiency
• The source of a blood clot or embolus after a stroke or transient ischemic attack

Toxicity analysis for heavy metals

Heavy metals are substances without any known biological function, which presence in determined quantities in living beings leads to dysfunctions in their organisms. This fact means that, even though the usual exposure is at low doses, the extents that can accumulate with time in the body are high enough to cause damages or a disease.

1. Blood analysis, stools and/or urine

   With these it is possible to detect exact quantities in micrograms per liter or ppm (parts per million) of toxic metals. However, these tests only reveal those heavy metals which are in circulation through our bloodstream or urine (in this case in the excretion stage).

2. Capillary test to detect heavy metals

   Hair is an excretory tissue of mineral elements (both essential and non-essential and potentially toxic). This way, the analysis of mineral elements through hair provides us with a sift method to determine the physiologic state in our body of said minerals, may it be in excess, deficiency or poor distribution.