Chest pains, heart flutters, heart attack-- they are the signposts of heart troubles. In the past, such symptoms might mean a treadmill stress test or a cardiac catheterization to diagnose the ...
A diagnostic cardiac catheterization allows interventional cardiologists to test your heart muscle and the arteries that keep it supplied with blood. Cardiac catheterizations are usually very safe and ...
This test involves inserting a thin plastic tube through a blood vessel until it reaches the heart; injecting a dye into the blood vessels; and taking X-rays to assess the heart’s structure and ...
Although diuretic therapy appears to improve the exercise capacity of ... pressure (42 to 26 mm Hg), mean right atrial pressure (9 to 4 mm Hg), and right ventricular end-diastolic pressure (11 to 6 mm ...