Preventive Cardiovascular Screening with risk assessment
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Preventive Cardiovascular Screening with risk assessment
Key Screening tests for monitoring cardiovascular health are:
Blood pressure
fasting lipoprotein profile (cholesterol)
body weight & waist circumference
BMI
blood glucose
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Screening for athletes
&
those wanting to participate in vigorous exercise
If athletes are passionate about their sports, we’ll exhaust all
available testing to help them stay safe while participating. It’s rare that we
have to help an athlete understand why participation isn’t a safe choice,
though this outcome does happen
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Chest Pains evaluation
& management
Chest
pains may be caused by angina or a heart attack. While there may be other
reasons for your chest pain, here we will only cover a heart attack. A heart
attack occurs when a coronary artery suddenly becomes blocked, stopping the
flow of blood to the heart muscle and damaging it. All or part of the heart
muscle is cut off from its oxygen supply. Left without oxygen, the heart muscle
is injured
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Diagnosis
The
diagnosis of your heart attack will be based on your symptoms, ECG and the
results of your blood studies. Various tests will be performed.
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Treatment
A heart attack is treated using the
following methods, or a combination of them:
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
-
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG)
-
Medications