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I had an echo done recently, still at a NYU location but "locally" for convenience as I had been driving nonstop to NYC from suburb. The tech actually sat on the bed with me and performed the test and was pushing, prodding, etc. In addition, results always show in my chart 24-48 hours later and it took almost 2 weeks. I did not feeling confident at all with results. I then went to NYU hospital where my cardiologist is located, to request another echo and retake it there. I did so, and the results were different. I strongly recommend going to the best place and have it done whereby you feel confident in the tech doing the test and radiologist reading it. Good luck.

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@gerrycf I had 2 echocardiograms and finally had an MRI cardiac using the Siemens 3.0 Tesla MRI at UCLA today. Got the result back the same day and there is no myocardial hypertrophy found at all. In fact, my aorta is fine as well compared to the echo results. I am happy with the result but didn't realize that an echocardiogram is not very accurate compared to the MRI cardiac