You should visit a cardiologist if you have symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations, swelling of feet.
2D-Echo is an ultrasound technique used to see heart chambers, valves and major blood vessels of heart. TMT is an ECG done while doing exercise.
Once you are above 40 yrs better to have an annual health check-ups
Narrowing or occlusion due to atherosclerosis (fatty buildups) in the arteries that carry blood to the heart muscles.
- Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.
- Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, your back, neck, jaw or stomach.
- Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.
- Excessive sweating, nausea, light-headedness
- Don’t smoke and avoid passive smoking
- Control your blood pressure and sugar if DM,HTN
- Eat a heart healthy diet( low in saturated and trans fats, salt and added sugars)
- 150 min of moderate physical activity a week
- Reach and maintain a healthy weight
- Coronary angiography is a procedure that uses a special dye and x rays to see blood flow through arteries in your heart.
- A small tube is inserted in your wrist or groin and guided to your heart, looks for narrowing in heart arteries using dye and x rays.
Angioplasty is a minimally invasive method of widening a coronary artery using a balloon or stent which emits medication to prevent blood clots.
In bypass surgery, a vein or artery from elsewhere in the body is grafted on to narrowed coronary artery to allow blood flow.