Ultrasound

Shanghai DeltaHealth Cardiovascular Hospital’s Department of Ultrasound, an important component of diagnostic medical imaging, comprises an experienced team of ultrasound physicians and technologists. It is equipped with a comprehensive range of advanced ultrasound equipment, meeting the routine and specialized examination needs of all types of outpatients, emergency patients, and inpatients for all organs throughout the body (including the adult heart, pediatric heart, fetal heart, the aorta and peripheral vessels, head and neck vessels, the craniocerebral region, abdominal organs, small organs, gynecology, pediatrics, musculoskeletal medicine, etc.).

As an indispensable part of the DeltaHealth cardiac team, the department has outstanding strengths in the ultrasound diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Through the application of multimodal imaging technologies, the team makes precise preoperative diagnoses of patients’ conditions, provides real-time transthoracic and transesophageal ultrasound monitoring during interventional procedures, closure procedures, minimally invasive procedures, and surgery, provides regular postoperative ultrasound evaluations, and performs special ultrasound examinations such as three-dimensional ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, bubble studies, exercise and pharmacologic stress echocardiography, and various ultrasound-guided puncture procedures, thereby providing a precise and reliable basis for treatment. All visits are managed entirely by appointment; private spaces are provided, patient privacy is emphasized, and the patient experience is improved.

Our featured technologies and applications: percutaneous aortic valve replacement (TAVI), mitral valve clip procedure (Mitra clip), valve replacement surgery, aortic surgery, left atrial appendage occlusion, and various closure procedures for patent foramen ovale, atrial septal defects, and ventricular septal defects, etc., with intraoperative three-dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal ultrasound monitoring; preoperative diagnosis of various congenital heart diseases in children, with intraoperative transesophageal ultrasound monitoring; left-heart and myocardial contrast-enhanced ultrasound, right-heart contrast echocardiography and bubble studies, exercise and pharmacologic stress echocardiography, and various special ultrasound examinations such as puncture guidance.