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Cardiac stress echocardiogram.
What are you suppose to expect?
It is an ultrasound which is done to see your heart at rest, during and after exercise. This gives an estimate of your heart’s pumping capacity and response to exercise.
Who should get it?
Patient with risk factors for heart disease, to rule out any underlying heart disease.
Following a heart attack to assess the heart function.
Patients with heart disease prior to any major surgery
Patient with previous heart attack, who have symptoms of chest pain or breathing
difficulty at present.
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Cardiac stress echocardiogram.
What are you suppose to expect?
It is an ultrasound which is done to see your heart at rest, during and after exercise. This gives an estimate of your heart’s pumping capacity and response to exercise.
Who should get it?
Patient with risk factors for heart disease, to rule out any underlying heart disease.
Following a heart attack to assess the heart function.
Patients with heart disease prior to any major surgery
Patient with previous heart attack, who have symptoms of chest pain or breathing
difficulty at present.
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