Well, good luck!

Excellent and thank you for sharing! 👍This upcoming Friday I'm meeting my new (to me) Advanced Cardiology and I'm having an Echo immediately prior to my appointment. But I don't know any details about it. My previous Doc is now at Duke. 😉 My PAH seems to be managed well at this time. I was diagnosed Nov '23 after years of chasing symptoms that no other Docs pursued. 😑
Carolyn 💕

I don't know all the distinctions though I was told that standard echos have a hard time finding much out about the right heart whereas more is seen re the right heart with the PH Protocol study. Maybe it's due to the use of the contrast media. I don't know. My standard echos that were done in the cardiologist's office used to take about 20 to 25 minutes. The 2 PH protocol studies I had done in the hospital each took 75 minutes. And the systolic pressure reading is closer to accurate.

Apparently the hospital I go to teamed up with the local Mayo clinic and uses their protocols,

✅👍 what did you learn from the protocol echo vs the standard?

There is a PH Protocol version of an echocardiogram that includes your getting a low level of contrast. That version is more helpful than the standard version. It's given in a PH savvy hospital setting and only certain echo technicians are trained to do them. I just had my second one done this past Friday.