There is something a little scary about having a medical test done, especially if you don’t know exactly what it involves. One type of test that doctors frequently order are called angiogram studies. The good news is that an angiogram is a non-invasive test and should not involve any significant pain or discomfort. Hospitals do […]
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If you ever thought that every woman needs to do, to know if these coronary arteries (heart disease) are blocked, it takes a treadmill test so that doctors can see if the blood is thought to flow during exercise. again Maybe one day that will be easy, but currently, it’s nowhere near. A study in […]
Moyamoya disease is a rare circulatory and neurological disease with an unknown cause. According to eMedicine Neurology, moyamoya disease is characterized by thickening in the walls of the terminal portions of the internal carotid vessels. The anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries that branch off the circle of Willis are also occluded (Sucholeiki). This causes […]
In mid-December of 2008 – exactly two weeks before Christmas Day, I had unexpected open heart surgery – a triple bypass. I am a female and at the time I was 53 years old. Of course before I had the very unexpected open heart surgery I thought I felt great. I thought I just had […]
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It was a Friday morning in August when my husband announced that he wasn’t feeling well and was not going to work. He thought his blood pressure might be high. What he initially described was a tingling sensation in his head and some light pressure in his chest. Although tingling and chest pressure can be […]
Yet another study shows the value of the CT angiogram in distinguishing ER patients with cardiac chest pain from those with non-heart related chest pain. The report appears in the July 26, 2012 New England Journal of Medicine. “We found that the use of CCTA in emergency department evaluation of acute chest pain very effectively […]