Echocardiography is a test that uses sound waves to produce live images of your heart. This test allows your doctor to monitor how your heart and its valves are functioning. The images can help them get information about: blood clots in the heart chambers. At Siddhi, We have conduct echocardiography of adult, child as well as of fetus of pregnant mother. We have adult cardiologist as well as pediatric cardiologist for echo as well as cardiac consultation.
Ø Adult Echocardiography
Ø Pediatric Echocardiography
Ø Fetal Echocardiography
Ø Adult Echocardiography
o For both male and female
o Performed by cardiologist
o Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday ( 11 AM to 4 PM)
Ø Pediatric Echocardiography-
o It is done for all children from birth till age of 18 years by specially trained pediatric cardiologist and echo-cardiologist
o From Sunday to Friday 11 am to 4 pm
Ø Fetal Echocardiography-
o It is for fetuses inside womb of a pregnant mother.
o This helps to early identify congenital heart disease and also to understand the function of fetal heart during the growth of fetus inside the womb.
o Performed by specially trained pediatric cardiologist and echo-cardiologist.
o Every Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday 12 pm to 4 pm
Pediatric cardiology services:
Paediatric cardiology services:
OPD: Sunday & Friday (2 pm to 3 pm)
Echocardiography Paediatric: From Sunday to Friday – 11 am to 4 pm
Fetal Echo: Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday – 12 pm to 4 pm
About 3% of all deliveries are born with a birth defect and nearly one percent of all new-born have a congenital heart defect (CHD). A congenital disease is a condition where baby is born some defect. Congenital heart disease is the commonest congenital anomaly which occurs in 9 out of every 1000 livebirths. In a research done in Dhulikhel hospital, 218 pediatric cardiac cases were studied, among which 144 cases (66.05%) were Congenital Heart Disease.(Joshi A). There is a study done in 34,876 school children from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, where CHD was found in 0.10% of total screened school children.(Prajapati D, 2013 ) Data regarding the status of CHD in Bhaktapur is lacking but it is still the most common birth defect. Data from our hospital is not concrete but CHD is the most encountered birth defects in our OPD.
Congenital Paediatric cardiac problems being the most common one, the set up and expertise is still limited in Nepal and no doubt, in Bhaktapur. This is the area where every responsible health institution should have efforts to bring forth needed services. Siddhi, being a not-for-profit, service oriented tertiary care centre in Bhaktapur, has this responsibility to expand its services to paediatric cardiology also.
With the support of the NICU and PICU, a basic Paediatric cardiology service has been started at Siddhi. Every Tuesday, children with heart diseases are examined in the Paediatric cardiology OPD. In addition to lab tests, ECG, Chest X-ray and Echocardiography are performed on needed children. ECG and Chest X-ray services are available 24 hours a day. Echocardiography for patients from OPD is offered from Tuesday to Friday. Fetal echo is done on Monday.
Echocardiography (ECHO) is the ultrasound of the heart. With this tool, we can detect most of the structural anomaly of the heart, including the heart valves. Echo can also be done on a developing fetus; this is called fetal echo.
Photos of Dr. Ganendra and Dr. Dhruba performing Echo.
Most of the children with heart disease are managed with medications on out-patient basis. Those who need cardiac monitoring and supplemental oxygen therapy get admitted. Some cardiac patients need urgent surgical intervention. We coordinate with hospitals in Kathmandu and India for such patients.
Pediatric Cardiology services:
OPD: every Tuesday (9am to 1PM)
Paediatric Echocardiography: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Fetal Echo: Every Monday.
