Sentences with phrase «angiograms which»

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!

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That association didn't change for patients who were previously diagnosed with depression before their heart disease diagnosis or for patients whose angiograms were performed for various reasons, which included stable angina, unstable angina, or heart attack.

«The majority of times patients will come in with pain, we do a stress test, and then we go to the angiogram, which is still the gold standard for testing,» says Leslie Cho, MD, medical director of Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic.

Most common in women, the syndrome causes plaque to spread evenly throughout the wall of the arteries, which may look clear during an angiogram but may still result in heart attack or sudden death.

He used an angiogram, which measured blood flow through blood vessels.