Please place
your cursor over the following links to learn about each of
these components of a Cardiac HealthScreeen session:
To monitor your heart's electrical
rhythm and rule out atrial fibrillation,
an uncontrolled and ineffective beating pattern which can lead
to blood clot formation in the heart. The danger of these
clots is that they can be pumped from your heart to your head
which can cause a stroke.
To rule out hypertension (high blood
pressure).
Ultrasound
imaging uses high-frequency sound waves (sound high above the range of human
hearing) to view the heart. We take pictures of the heart chambers and valves,
measure chamber sizes and heart wall thickness, measure the pumping capacity
of the heart, and look at the blood flowing through the heart valves and
chambers. These images and measurements allow us to evaluate for a great variety
of heart diseases and abnormalities, both congenital (present at birth) and
acquired (developed with age, through heredity, or through external sources).
Please click here to learn the names of some
diseases that can be discovered by a Cardiac HealthScreen.