Stress test heart stent
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I had necrosis at the distal (bottom) portion of the heart and a stent in the RCA (coronary), and it appears on an echo there is very little impairment and the heart's pumping ability is normal.
The degree of infarct and location is significant, and you may be a candidate for a stent implant and/or medication.
My husband is 66 and recently had a SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Study (stress test). It was essentially normal, with the exception of the following: "there is a moderate sized reversible defect of the inferior and apical walls". The left ventricle was normal in size and the ejection fractions were 57% at rest and 63% post stress. The internet resources suggest that such a defect could be indicative of a prior silent heart attack. Is this true?
I just had the Stress Echo Test and my doctor states I passed the test, however, he saw something with the EKG and recommended a Thallium Stress Test. I run 6 days a week and lift light weights daily. Sometimes, I run twice a day, once in the morning and a 15 minute hill burner on the treamill in the evening. I have always run since the age of 18 years. Nver shortness of breath, I am now 57 years old and 166 llbs.
the dubotomine stress test prior to the stenting said it showed positive for ischemia affecting heart wall in three places. EF was 70.19%.
What was notable about this test was that I am perfectly normal at low and medium dose of the dubotamine. Maybe I should lust live like that - low and medium pulse? All the grim looking stats came at high dose with pulse at 120. That's high for an 81-year-old? It would take me a fair sprint along the road to get it up to that level.
I am 61, female, had a stress test & reported diagnosis is "moderate inferior ischemia". What is the explanation (definition) of this diagnosis and what are most common treatment options/choices?
Never had any symptoms of heart problems. Just had a Thallium Stress Test as a precautionary measure due to family medical history. The stress test results showed an evidence of ischemia of basal septal wall. Cardiologist is recommending catheterization.
Is it necessary? Some doctors say absolutely not. Use aggressive medical treatments to control cholesterol and blood pressure with 80 mg. aspirin daily.
I just completed a tread mill stress test and a nuclear stress test. Briefly, the results are:
1) attained 100% target heart rate, no chest pains, no arrhythmia
2) LVEF is 56%
3) Moderate size infereior ischemia
4.) ECG is positive for ischemia at good workload (reached heart rate of 143).
I've formed a preliminary impression from my research on the Internet, but I would appreciate professional feedback. I am scheduled for a heart catheterization.
Thank you.
) and reiterated that I was too young to have this going on and that due to my syptoms, the family history and results of the Stress test that I needed to have the cath done. During a cath are they always able to stent the artery open? How bad would it have to be for them to go to a bypass instead of a stent? Sorry for so many questions, just very anxious. Thanks so very much.
It means that the supply of blood (and thus oxygen) is not sufficient during the maximum stress test, but that during rest it is (so the effect is reversible).
The position where the heart blood supply is sometimes not sufficient is part of the wall of the left ventricle.
The left ventricle is the part of the heart that queezes out the blood from the heart to the whole body. The pumping efficiency of the left ventricle may suffer from the lack of blood supply.
The doctor referred to it as an extra heartbeat, which apparently is a PVC. He ordered a stress test on me (I had one done a year ago and it was fine). He said this time the stress test came back somewhere in the middle. Not bad, not great so he wants to do an Angiogram to find out why I am experiencing this arrhythmia. He scared me because he spoke of blockages and surgery and all that. Of course he also said that it may come up clean and the arrhythmia is not related to a blockage.
I was told the result of my stress test revealed a sizable fixed region of diminished perfusion involving inferior wall of the ventricle extending to the apex, also a less smaller less conspicuous focus of diminished perfusion involving the anterior wall of the left ventricle, what does all this mean?
In November 2009 I had a heart attack, catheterization, and received a Taxus drug-eluting stent. Within nine months, after "failing} a treadmill stress test suggested by my doctor (and my having had few to no symptoms), my cardiologist scheduled another catheterization. It was discovered that my Taxus stent had completely clogged with scar tissue, leaving that part of my heart dead with no remedy.
You would probably do better making your own original post, but as I opened this post just because it seemed strange to me such an old post, December of last year, would appear again at the top of the list.
First let me say AFib is in general not life threatening and is not related to my knowledge to any artery blockage problems.
That said, I believe a stress test is run to check how well the heart muscles are getting blood. This includes the "heavy duty" nuclear stress test.
I assume you had some kind of stress test? either stress echo or a nuclear scan? I say this because unless you match the heart motion in 2 states, relaxed vs stressed, you can't tell if it's reversible or not. So, you have 2 good words here 'mild' and 'reversible'. Mild means the heart wall is not affected much and reversible means the lack of blood flow is only occurring when the heart is under load showing there is sufficient flow at rest.
My doctor tried to re-certify a nuclear stress test, which my insurance company, Anthem, has denied. I realize that no test is 100% accurate, but this test could possibly save my life. My cardiologist is refusing to do a pear to peer phone consult with the insurance company with no explanation to me. What can I do?
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