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ecg (electrocardiogram)
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. It is a simple test that can be a part of your routine health check or advised for specific cardiac complaints such as chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting or palpitations. It is best interpreted by a cardiologist along with your symptoms, clinical examination and other tests if indicated.
An ECG helps to:
- Diagnose rhythm abnormalities with slow or fast heart rates
- Tell if you are having a heart attack or had one previously
- Find out if the heart muscles are thick (hypertrophied) especially if you have long standing high blood pressure
- Check how well heart medications are working or have side effects
- Check whether your pacemaker is functioning well
ECG at Dr Amonkar's Cardiac Clinic
2d echocardiography
An echocardiogram, commonly called ‘echo’, shows the graphic detail of the heart’s movement. During this test, high-frequency sound waves called ultrasound provide pictures of the heart’s valves and chambers. This allows your cardiologist to evaluate the pumping action of the heart. Echo is often combined with Doppler ultrasound and color Doppler test to evaluate blood flow across the heart’s valves.
An echocardiogram will help to :
- Assess the overall function of your heart
- Tell whether you have had a heart attack previously and the extent of damage to the heart muscle
- To assess the thickness and stiffness of heart muscles in hypertensives
- Diagnose and follow the progress of heart valve disease over time
- Evaluate the effectiveness of medical or surgical treatments
2DEchocardiography for cardiac fitness at Dr Amonkar's Caradiac Clinic
Stress test
A stress test, sometimes called a treadmill test (TMT) or exercise test, helps your doctor find out how well your heart handles its workload during physical exercise. As your body works harder during the test, it requires more fuel and your heart has to pump more blood. The test can show if there’s a lack of blood supply through the arteries that go to the heart. Taking a stress test also helps your doctor know the kind and level of physical activity that’s right for you.
Treadmill test Stress test Dr Amonkar's Cardiac Clinic
holter monitoring
Holter monitor involves continuous digital recording of ECG for 24 hours. The monitor can be worn during your regular daily activities. Thus it helps the physician to correlate symptoms of dizziness, palpitations or blackouts with ECG changes. It is much more likely to detect an abnormal heart rhythm as compared to the ECG alone. It can also help evaluate your ECG during episodes of chest pain, during which time there may be telltale changes to suggest reduced blood supply to the muscle of the left ventricle.
24 hr Holter monitoring for bradycardia tachycardia conduction blocks with syncope and palpitations
ambulatory bp monitoring
The test allows continuous monitoring of blood pressure throughout the day and is useful to determine whether you are a dipper or a non-dipper, that is to say whether or not your blood pressure falls at night as compared to daytime values. Absence of a night time dip is associated with poorer health outcomes. Also, high blood pressure in the night is associated with end organ damage
24 hr Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) at Hypertension Centre,Dr Amonkar's Cardiac Clinic