Frequently Asked Questions

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Silent Ischemia
Smoking
Statins
Statins Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines
Stents
Stress Echocardiography
- Does breast tissue prevent obtaining an accurate result from a nuclear stress test?
- For a stress echo test, how do you determine if you use dobutamine or adenosine?
- Is another stress echo necessary?
- Is my heart ok? My tests are normal but I have random chest pain.
- My dobutamine stress echocardiogram revealed no inducible abnormal wall motion, but was interpreted as abnormal. Is this possible?
- What can cure inducible ischemia?
- What does “Diaphragmatic attenuation artifact corrected with prone imaging is present” mean on a nuclear stress test report?
- Will the radioactive tracer used in a gamma scan of my heart cause problems to my liver?
Stroke
Sudden Cardiac Arrest