The heart muscle does not contract effectively, and therefore less oxygen-rich blood is pumped out to the body.Your health care professional might recommend one or more of these tests to measure your ejection fraction:Echocardiogram (or “echo”) - the most widely used testMUGA scanCT scan...
If traditional Doppler echocardiography renders ambiguous findings, other options for evaluating cardiac structure and function are biplane transesophageal echocardiography or radionuclide angiography (MUGA scan). However, these methods are not only costly but also not readily available for some patients (...