Sonogram Saves Lives

You’ve heard the saying before, “Sonography save lives” but have you ever really given consideration to how sonograms save lives? Sonograms work as early detection tools. Find the disease early enough and modern medicine and surgery can help cure the disease before it takes over the body.

Below are just a few ways sonograms help save lives:

1. In an article that appears in October 2006 issue of The Kansas State Collegian, “Experts in the cardiac field estimate that one in 500 young adults suffer unknowingly from HCM. The only way to detect HCM is through an echocardiogram, a sonogram picture of the heart.”

2. According to the American Journal of Roentgenology, “Mammography is the only screening test that has been known to decrease a woman’s chances of dying from breast cancer.”

3. In a Dear Abby column, a reader mentions how her insistence of a sonogram spotted an aneurism that an AAA test couldn’t find. The sonogram—along with surgery, as the reader put it, “saved her life”.

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