Echocardiography Laboratory Overview

Echocardiography lab of Shaheed Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center is a fully equipped non-invasive cardiac imaging department which is the first and largest fully echo lab in Iran and one of the largest in the Middle East. It has started to work in **2001** as a separate independent ward. The aim of the echo department is to serve all patients in the best way and to reduce the burden of heart disease in the country.

Advanced Procedures

Advanced echocardiography modalities and procedures are performed by experienced faculty members expert in cardiac imaging and training echocardiography fellows.

All exams are supervised and reported by faculty members. Intra operative TEE, sometimes epicardial echocardiography, and 2D-3D TTE and TEE in cathlab or EP lab during interventional procedures are also among the most advanced echocardiography exams.

Service Scope & Training

Moreover, portable and non-portable echo venders are seated in all medical, surgical and emergency wards that are used for TTE to provide good service for **bedside, elective pre-procedural, post-procedural and emergent echocardiography**.

Echocardiography lab of SRCMRC is the **largest training department for echocardiography fellows** with a huge body of common, usual and rare cases with congenital, ischemic, valvular, pericardial, myocardial heart disease and etc.

Research & Collaboration

In addition, the echo lab has a dedicated research center with an enormous database with **ongoing and published researches** in national and international prestigious journals. The ward is in full relationship with **operating rooms, cathlab, EP lab, CMR, CT angiography** and other diagnostic and procedural departments.