INVESTIGATIONS FOR HEART DISEASES
TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Like standard echocardiography, using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) sound waves to produce an image of the heart and see how it works. But unlike standard echocardiography, the sound waves are transmitted through a tube-shaped device placed in the mouth and forwarded the esophagus (gullet). This test can show doctors detailed the size, shape and movement of your heart muscle and the condition of your aorta, the largest blood vessel supplying your body. It can also show how the heart valves are working and how blood flows through your heart. TEE also provides the physician about your arteries. This test is often used when doctors can not get a clear picture of your heart by echocardiography standard.
Transesophageal ultrasound uses sound waves frequency (called ultrasound) that can provide a moving picture of your heart. The standard test is echocardiography, except that the images of the heart comes from inside the esophagus rather than the chest wall. They sent sound waves through the body of a device called a transducer, which is attached to a pipe and put the esophagus. Sound waves bounce off the heart and return to the transducer as echoes. They reflect converted into images on a television screen to produce an image of your heart and aorta.
EXERCISE STRESS TEST OR STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
A stress test is a common test that doctors diagnose coronary artery disease. The test helps doctors see how the heart functions during exercise. You can also hear a stress test is called the test of exercise tolerance, stress tests, EKG or treadmill tests. A stress test can also use echocardiography (called a stress echo), or dyes, radioisotopes are injected into the blood (called nuclear stress test). When these tests are complete, the doctors say more about the structure and blood flow in the heart.
During a stress test, you will wear small metal discs called electrodes. The electrodes are connected to son called son, who are connected to a computer with a television screen that records the heart's electrical activity (ECG). This screen can also display images from a stress echocardiography and stress nuclear testing. Seeing this video, doctors can detect your pulse while you exercise. Sometimes a patient is too ill to perform. In these cases, the patients receiving a drug that has the same effect on the body, as if they had exercised.
Do not eat or drink four hours before the test, in particular the elements That contain caffeine, which can be found in coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate and some pain relievers in-the-counter. Also make sure you ask your doctor about medicines, and if end up before the test. During the test, you will be asked to walk on the treadmill. Every two or three minutes by a doctor or technician who adds speed and angle of the treadmill that makes you feel like you are walking uphill. The doctor or technician who wishes to renew the models ECG and blood pressure, which doctors can your heart not getting enough oxygen. Other symptoms of coronary heart disease are chest pain or unusual shortness of breath when exercising.
HOLTER MONITORING
Holter gives physicians a constant reading of your heart rate and rhythm over a period of 24 hours (or more). The Holter monitor can record heart rate and rhythm when you feel chest pain or symptoms of an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia called). Your doctor can then look at when you noticed the symptoms. Reading this printout will give your doctor an idea of the nature of your heart problem.
Holter monitoring is a storage device. The display is a strap that is worn over the shoulder or around waist. Holter monitoring is battery operated and regularly a lot of cartridge you use the audio cassette. The display is called the 5-7 wires. Lead sheets for setting called electrodes, which is worn on the breast. These electrodes are very sensitive and can pick up electrical impulses to the heart. The pulses are recorded by Holter monitor and provide medical records 24 hours of the electrical activity of the heart.
Holter monitoring is a painless test. You need to go to medical office to install the screen. It's a good idea to take a bath before going to the doctor's office, because when the Holter monitor is installed, you can not do it wet in the shower and bathtub. The nurses clean the areas of alcohol and then insert the electrodes is resistance. Men, the nurses may have little beard chest area. Gel electrodes attached to skin. Sometimes the electrode and lead wire is recorded to prevent them from moving the chest. You can use a Holter monitor for at least 12-24 hours. When you wear the monitor, you are asked to keep records of daily life: what you did and now. This helps the doctor know what you were doing at times that the readings are abnormal. Otherwise you can make a typical operation, except for those who can benefit from Holter monitor wet.After 24 hours (or more), you return to your doctor about removing the electrodes. This may cause some discomfort, as if you had a bandage torn
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- CHEST X - RAY
- ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY OR ECG
- EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
- DOPPLER ULTRASOUND
- EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
- LOOP RECORDER
- ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDY
- ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
- NUCLEAR STRESS TEST
- GATED BLOOD POOL SCAN
- CARDIAC CATHETER STUDY
- LEFT VENTRICULOGRAM WITH NORMAL LV FUNCTION
- PACEMAKERS
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