how long for echocardiogram results?

My results took 10 days to come back so 5 days isn't that long. You can ring your surgery if it was the GP who sent you and ask if they are back and if not how long it will take. I hope it's good news

Hi Juice, I've had a Echocardiogram, I thinknow it's a bit too soon for result,you probably

Have to go back to your Cardiologist for result, I've had a double heart by pass 10 years ago,I've had every test there is

Plus Angiograms and stents implants.what problems do you have?

My husbands was told to wait by the operator, 15 mins later we were called into the cardiologist's office and given the bad news, he had dialated cardiomyopathy, or heart failure, cause unknown, so they don't muck around if it is serious.

2 days later he collapsed, with congestive heart failure, and was admitted to hospital for 8 days, where they stablised him.

5 years later, 2 weeks ago he collapsed again, heartbeat at 30 at home, hospital didn't believe my little home blood pressure monitor which also shows his heartbeat, made insulting comments about wasting our time and money.

I suggested they take his blood pressure and heart rate on their big fancy machine, came back with the same readings, at that point they hit the red emergency button.

I am not fobbed off easily by some jumped up staff member at the hospital who doesn't know what she is taking about.

I have educated myself about my husbands heart condition, to date this is the fourth time I have saved his life by insisting a Dr examine him, and even then in one case I insisted on another Dr, as the first didn't know what he was taking about.

Kept asking myself why my instintive knowledge was so high, my nursing sister/sibling said to me you lived with a heart failure father your entire life, you know more than even you are aware.

Kept him this time for 4 days, installed pacemaker with defib, home again 12 hours later, and doing well. 

He is a failing heart failure patient, needing the pacemaker is just another step down in the heart failure process I'm afraid, but there is still alot they can do for him with modern medicine.

Hi juli60673

 Sometimes you could be told ammediately if the Person

doing the test has the Knowledge of percieving the reults taken.

But here is a usefu NHSl link that explains what usually happens.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/echocardiogram/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Good Luck .

I would have though 2 weeks par for the course and they should write you a letter and give you the results

It took two weeks for my results but I have had issues going back to last May as had a heart attack in May 2015 and then three stents fitted ended up with an erratic heartbeat

The results are quite confusing to me in my case as all medical talk and not in plain English