3 Simple Heart Tests

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3 Simple Heart Test

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Author (Prof.) Dr. S. Om Goel, MD/DM From family
of doctors from AIIMS, MAMC Delhi University MD
Medicine, USA DM/Fellowship, USA
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The Heart

• Heart is a chambered muscular organ that pump
  blood received from the veins into the arteries,
  thereby maintaining the flow of the blood through
  the entire circulatory system.
• The heart is surrounded by membrane called
  Pericardium.
• Heart pumps more than about 14,000 liters of
  blood in a day, or 5 millions liters in a years.

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Three Simple Heart Tests 

• 1 ECG or EKG
• An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a test that
  checks how your heart is functioning by measuring
  the electrical activity of the heart. With each
  heartbeat, an electrical impulse travels through
  your heart. This wave causes the muscle to
  squeeze and pump blood from the heart.
• An ECG measures and records the electrical
  activity that passes through the heart. 
• An ECG may be recommended if you are
  experiencing arrhythmia, chest pain, or
  palpitations and an abnormal ECG result can be a
  signal of several different heart conditions.

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2 Echocardiogram/Ultrasound of the heart

• An echocardiogram (echo) is a graphic outline of
  the heart's movement. During an echo test,
  ultrasound (high-frequency sound waves) from a
  hand-held wand placed on your chest provides
  pictures of the heart's valves and chambers and
  helps the sonographer evaluate the pumping action
  of the heart. Echo is often combined with Doppler
  ultrasound and color Doppler to evaluate blood
  flow across the heart's valves.
• Assess the overall function of your heart
• Follow the progress of valve disease over time
• Evaluate the effectiveness of your medical or
  surgical treatments

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3 CT Angiogram

• A computed tomography angiogram (CT angiogram) is
  a test that uses X-rays to provide detailed
  pictures of the heart and the blood vessels that
  go to the heart, lung, brain, kidneys, head,
  neck, legs, and arms.
• A CT angiogram can show narrowed or blocked areas
  of a blood vessel.
• During a CT angiogram, you lie on a table that
  passes through a doughnut-shaped opening in the
  scanner.
• If your doctor finds a major blockage in one of
  your blood vessels during a CT angiogram, you
  won't be able to get an immediate angioplasty to
  clear the blockage.

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Unique facts about heart
There are so many unique facts about our
heart 1. It is 100 muscle in shape of heart. 2.
It can beat on its own outside the Body and that
is how we can do heart transplant (heart keeps
beating outside our body). 3. Heart rate and
pumping action is controlled by the electrical
switches (two electrical switches in the
heart). 4. Every part of the heart is fully wired
conducting electricity.
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About ECG- why it is so important?

• ECG is really very helpful when person is having
  chest pain or, We are suspecting-
• Myocardial ischemia Or MI or myocardial
  infarction or so-called heart attack.
• An electrolyte disorder ECG really helps us to
  tell if potassium is high or low (electrolytes).
• Drug effect on the heart Some of the ECG changes
  are very specific to drug toxicity (drug effect
  on the heart) also. It tells us about the
  hypertrophy or the thickening of the heart
  muscles which happen if you have a hypertension
  for many, many years.

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Heart attack

• A heart attack occurs when the flow of blood to
  the heart is blocked.
• The blockage is most often a buildup of fat,
  cholesterol and other substances, which form a
  plaque in the arteries that feed
  the heart (coronary arteries).
• Sometimes, a plaque can rupture and form a clot
  that blocks blood flow.

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Author (Prof.) Dr. S. Om Goel, MD/DM From family
of doctors from AIIMS, MAMC Delhi University
MD Medicine, USA DM/Fellowship, USA
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