“Can anxiety affect an echocardiogram?”
I am a 34 year old male. I want to know if anxiety can affect an echocardiogram?
3 Answers
No, it wouldn't. However, anxiety can increase your heart rate that can make the images of echo hard to obtain some times
Generally it should not affect. However anxiety may cause tachycardia or arrhythmia which may affect the interpretation.
If your heart rate is very fast, it can limit the amount of information that can be obtained from the echo.
