If you're stable for 6 years with no other cardiovascular impairments and a normal current
thallium stress test, then you can obtain «Standard» rates without a rating.
A stress test or
thallium stress test is a definitive test used by cardiologists to determine the presence coronary heart disease and a cardiac catherization is the procedure that pinpoints blockages and corrects them via anglioplasty.
Diagnostic tests such as an EKG,
Thallium Stress Test, Stress Echo or Angiogram are used by cardiologists to determine the type of angina present and the severity of the coronary heart disease.
Unlike
thallium stress tests or angiograms which are two - dimensional and really show just blood - flow, intravenous ultrasound is 3D and images the actual plaque itself!
Not exact matches
His study, conducted with U-M cardiologist Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H. and team at the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, looked at the type of
stress test known as SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, which can use Tc - 99m or, less precisely,
thallium - 201.