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Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)
A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) is a special echocardiogram that takes ultrasound images of your heart from inside your esophagus (swallowing or food tube).
If you have a TEE, you will swallow a flexible tube (the size of an index finger) that has a small ultrasound transducer on the end. Once you have swallowed the tube, the doctor will take close-up ultrasound pictures of your heart.
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Source: Allina Patient Education, Helping Your Heart, fourth edition, cvs-ahc-90648
First published: 10/04/2002
Last updated: 06/01/2007
Reviewed by: Allina Patient Education experts
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