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Cardiovascular Disease is the leading cause of death in the
United States for both men and women.
First, we evaluate our patients
for
two of the leading risk factors for heart disease:
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Atrial Fibrillation |
An abnormal electrical
conduction in the heart which causes insufficient pumping of the blood
through the heart and body. Nearly 5 million Americans are
affected, a large portion of them with NO SYMPTOMS. |
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Hypertension |
High blood pressure from the force of
your blood pumping through your arteries. Hypertension is
commonly known as the 'Silent Killer' since there typically are NO
SYMPTOMS. |
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Our cardiac screening looks for and identifies abnormalities in both
of these risk categories. |
Then, via ultrasound, we assess our patients' hearts for
abnormalities.
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Cardiac Ultrasound |
Eight out of every thousand children are affected by some form of
congenital heart disease (often undetected until late adolescence or even into adulthood).
Many of these are detectable by screening. Other abnormalities such as Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy (which is responsible for 1/3 of the sudden
deaths in athletes), abnormal heart chamber sizes and
heart valve problems are also detectable. Many of these
problems also have NO SYMPTOMS. |
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Our
cardiac ultrasound screening identifies many different abnormalities in
this vital organ. |
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