Sentences with phrase «of angiogram»

If the results of your angiogram are normal, you can expect «normal» or standard underwriting for your life insurance policy.

Doctors can detect coronary microvascular syndrome if they perform a special type of angiogram, says Dr. Bairey Merz, who is working to develop new noninvasive tests for the syndrome.

Not exact matches

Blood work, a resting EKG and a respiration test were negative, but a stress test and an angiogram turned up a big problem: four blocked arteries, one of them at 100 percent — not what Curin expected at his age.

My first wife received anointing of the sick multiple times due to her chronic pain and health issues and I've received it at least twice, once before an angiogram and once as a caregiver of Catherine.

This pilot research builds on an earlier study by Milovancev and collaborators that examined the ability of MRIs and CT angiograms to detect cancerous lesions related to FISS, and another study that looked at three methods for assessing margins for canine mast cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas.

My patient was told that he had a score of 710 — a high calcium score — and his physician had told him that he would need to undergo a coronary angiogram, a roadmap movie of the coronary anatomy, as soon as possible.

You analyze the definitive studies and find that the number of people whose lives are saved by bypass surgery, angiograms, and cholesterol - lowering drugs is statistically insignificant — and yet life expectancy has risen since the advent of all three of those treatments.

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their interventional cardiologist accessed the heart through an artery in the arm rather than the groin, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

The study included 22,917 patients from 19 medical centers in Ontario, Canada, who received a diagnosis of stable coronary artery disease following coronary angiogram for chest pain (chronic stable angina) between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2013.

«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.

«When we do angiograms of the arteries [in people with broken heart syndrome], there isn't any obstruction of the coronary arteries,» says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the director of the Women's Heart Center at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Looking at 235 women with established heart disease, they measured baseline angiograms and repeated them in an average of 3.1 years.

«And the converse, I was doing angiograms on somebody with cholesterol of 280 and they had no heart disease.»

I am thinking of having a CT angiogram done now to really look inside the LAD for any other soft plaque / blockage.

And I made the statement... When we did his angiogram, I mean, the doctor who performed it, said it's pristine for someone that eats his kind of diet... Pristine, meaning these are very clean arteries.

They looked at angiograms a year apart after intervening with increasing one type of fat in each group.

Even after an angiogram showed no blockage and doctors gave Nixs heart a clean bill of health, she did nt stop visiting doctors offices whenever her symptoms reappeared.

«Instead of discrete obstructions, the plaque is evenly distributed throughout the blood vessels, so its pretty much invisible on the angiogram,» says Dr. Goldberg, who's also an AHA spokeswoman.

Even when doctors suspect heart disease and order an angiography or angiogram (a diagnostic X-ray of the heart and its blood vessels), they often do nt see problems, something that has long baffled them.

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.

• Performed a variety of imaging procedures that ranged from basic head scans, angiograms, and invasive procedures.

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• Provided various shift support for all Radiology services for Dewitt Army Community Hospital in Ft. Belvoir, VA. • Performed a variety of imaging procedures that ranged from basic head scans, angiograms, and invasive procedures serving in the military as a Radiologic Technician for 3 years.

• Direct care of patients with myocardial infarction and assist in resuscitation / code blue situations • Oversee care of pre and post CABG (coronary artery bypass graft), pre and post cardiac cath, Angiogram / Angioplasty, AICD, PPM, acute stroke, and post-op peripheral vascular surgery patients • Perform EKG and telemetry monitoring, interpret results, and intervene as needed • Collaborates with physicians and social workers regarding discharge planning and follow up care plans • Educate patients and families about healthy living including smoking cessation, alcohol cessation, etc. • Set age - appropriate short - term and long term goals in care planning • Administer intravenous drugs, drips, and combinations drugs using 5 rights and titration of vasoactive drugs with the use of IV infusion pump