Dr. Pikul Patel, the Bastrop medical director with Ally Medical, joined Studio 512 Co-Host Rosie Newberry to talk about stress echocardiograms (ECG). “It is a test used to see how your heart works ...

LONDON — Doctors in a London chest-pain unit have shown that employing contemporary stress echocardiography in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) but normal ECG and negative ...

Treadmill stress echocardiography (TSE) reveals hidden physiologic limitations in patients with asymptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), aiding in diagnosis and prognosis. Many patients with ...

Recently I provided an overview of my experience with the coronary calcium scan, a comfortable, non-invasive, and inexpensive test that allows docs to see inside heart arteries. The test determines ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Echocardiograms. Stress tests. Cardiac calcium tests. You may well have had some or all of these. Your doctor may have ...

Although contrast agents have an essential role in non-invasive imaging techniques, potential side effects limit their use. For example, both low- and iso-osmolar iodinated contrast media used in ...

The recommendation is included in the organization’s “Guidelines for the management of chronic coronary syndromes,” published Aug. 30 in the European Heart Journal. “Ultrasound contrast agents ...