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Don’t Let Cardiac Testing Stress You Out (Part 2) by Heartstrong Registered Nurse

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My stress test was normal. I don't need a heart scan! by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:26pm Katy had undergone a stress test while being seen in an emergency room, where she'd gone one weekend because of a dull pain on the right side of her chest. After her stress... you've accomplished. But Katy declared, "But I didn't think another heart scan was necessary. My stress test was normal!" What Katy was struggling to understand was that even Read on »

Heart disease "reversal" by stress test by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 8:52am Here's an interesting example of a 71-year old man who achieved "reversal" of an abnormality by a nuclear stress test. This man underwent bypass surgery around 10 years ago, two stents three years ago. A nuclear stress test in April, 2005 showed an area of poor blood flow in the front of the heart. On the images, normal blood flow is shown Read on »

Hypertensive response to exercise stress test and risk of future stroke ! by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 16 Apr 2011 11:05am release which precipitates cerebro vascular event. How do you identify people who are at risk for stroke ? While cardiac physicians are obsessed with exercise stress test to predict CAD very few are worried about stroke . In fact the same exercise stress test can be used to stratify stroke risk. The exercise induced systolic blood pressure raise Read on »

Strongly positive exercise stress test is equivalent to a brief episode of unstable angina by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 20 Jan 2010 9:25am Exercise stress testing(EST) is one of the common investigation modality in the evaluation of CAD.he indication for EST generally fall into two broad categories... in our thinking, patients with classical angina may undergo coronary angiogram directly .This is understandable as the stress test has little to improve diagnostic Read on »

Is there an entity called borderline positive exercise stress test ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 07 Aug 2011 9:44am treated CAD ? If revascularization is a complete success , stress test would revert back to normal or it can be a borderline as we have just mentioned. To our surprise... stress test after a month. Stress thallium Doubutamine stress CT angiogram Regular Cath angiogram* (May be the best , of course it also carries a risk of labeling Read on »

Should all patients with positive excercise stress test (EST) undergo coronary angiogram ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 26 Jun 2009 5:32pm Exercise stress test ( Also called treadmill test ) is an important investigation not only in patients with suspected CAD but also in established CAD . In the former... or proximal LAD perform >10METS in exercise stress test ? No, large clinical experience (Also refered to Class C evidence by ACC/AHA!) indicate no patient with critical left Read on »

Beware the "false positive" stress test by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm There's a widely-known (among cardiologists) problem with nuclear stress tests. It's called the "false positive." (Nuclear stress tests are known as stress Cardiolites, stress thalliums, stress Myoviews, persantine stress tests, adenosine stress tests) Stress tests, nuclear and otherwise, are helpful for identifying areas of poor blood flow Read on »

Non-Stress Tests are causing me STRESS!!! by Helene Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:56pm Why do they call them Non-stress Tests?? I find that they do nothing but cause me more stress. Today's NST lasted 90 minutes long...yes, 90 minutes long! Let me start off... what I had planned! She took my BP after the NST and it had gone down a little but not too much....no shocker there considering how stressful the "non-stress" test was. Overall Read on »