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What tests are used to determine if you have clogged arteries in the heart?
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Angiography: Heart catherterization with angiography is the gold standard.
Answered 3/30/2013
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Risk assessment: Tests used depends on your risk and if you have any symptoms. Your doctor will start by doing a history and physical exam. If there is still a suspicion after this he/she will order either blood work, ecg, a stress test or cardiac ct, or any combination of the above. It is possible that after the history & physical your doctor determines that you do not even need any of these tests.
Answered 3/30/2013
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Options: The gold stndrd is "cardiac cath, " where tiny wire & tube are fed from artery in groin or arm to vessels of heart and dye is injected by fluoroscopy to create a roadmap of heart's vessels--can also open / stent narrow/clogged arteries. Other ways are indirect & include ct scan that looks for calcium in heart vessels (=blockage) or a nuclear med study looking for uptake by heart muscle.
Answered 1/24/2019
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