Strong Heart and Vascular Center

Diagnosis

Cardiac Diagnostic Tests

At Strong Health, we offer the complete spectrum of cardiac diagnostic tests, both non-invasive and interventional.

Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tests

• Blood Tests

• Carotid & Extremity Vascular Testing

• CAT Scans

• Echocardiography

  • Color-Flow Doppler Echocardiograms

  • Signal averaged ECG

  • Stress Echocardiogram (exercise and pharmacological)

  • Transesophageal Echocardiogram

• Electrocardiograms (EKG)

• Holter and Event (Loop) Monitoring (Transtelephonic pacemaker and arrhythmia monitoring)

• Exercise Stress Tests

• MRIs

• Nuclear Cardiology Tests, including stress and pharmacological stress testing

  • Myocardial Perfusion Scans (rest and exercise stress)

  • Pharmacologic Stress Tests

    • Thallium

    • Dobutamine

    • Persantine

  • Technetium-99m gated SPECT imaging

  • Ventricular Function Studies

  • Peripheral Vascular Studies (see carotid & extremity vascular testing)

  • Tilt table testing (Isuprel tilt testing)

• VO2 Max Study

Interventional Diagnostic Tests

• Cardiac Catheterization (coronary angiography)

• Cardiac Biopsy

• Electrophysiology Studies (cardiac mapping)

The diagnosis and treatment of the various forms of heart disease progressed dramatically during the last decade. Now, as the 21st century begins, patients have new options - and new hopes. Strong Health is at the center of this progress.