ANSWER: A stress test and a CT calcium score are both ways of evaluating a person for blockages in the arteries of the heart.

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A research team led by Matthew Nystoriak, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical research and translational medicine at ...

Background Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction leads to an increase in pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and potentially right ...

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Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

Other causes of electrical alternans include rapid supraventricular tachycardia, acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, dilated cardiomyopathy, or decompensated heart failure.

Pulmonary angiography, specifically the computed tomographic version, is the gold standard for diagnosing lung embolism.

He said the activity can be as short as 20-30 seconds, but it must be high intensity — “movement that gets us out of breath, gets our heart rate up” — and repeated several times daily.