A chemical stress test uses medications to simulate your heart’s response to exercise. A stress test can assess how well your heart performs during exercise. Your doctor may suggest a stress test if ...

Before a stress test, you’ll need to avoid food, drink, tobacco, and caffeine for a time. You may also have to stop taking some medications. Your doctor will provide information specific to you, but ...

Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced myocardial ischemia (lack of blood flow to the heart) are likely to benefit from heart bypass surgery or angioplasty, ...

Dr. James Stein answers the question: 'Role Of Ultrasound Stress Testing?' — -- Question: What is the role of ultrasound stress testing? Answer: One of the mainstays of evaluating and managing ...

A new study can help guide proper treatment course for patients depending on heart function and severity of heart damage. Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced ...

Medical Watch for Sept 6. Stress tests may have value beyond the heart. The treadmill exercises combined with an electrocardiogram, called a stress test, is used to diagnose cardiac problems. But a ...

Heart Hospital of Austin held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday to celebrate the $1.6 million expansion of the facility’s ...

The new test measures a protein called cystatin C. The older and still standard method for assessing the health of the kidney ...

"My dad had an interesting summer. He actually, um, had a quintuple bypass surgery. And that's a really intense surgery." Taylor Swift is getting personal on the New Heights Podcast, revealing that ...

Stress CMR significantly enhances diagnostic accuracy for chest pain without obstructive coronary artery disease, identifying ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 85-year-old mother-in-law had a mild heart attack a few days ago. She didn’t immediately take the nitroglycerin she had on hand. She has a pacemaker, and it reported the event to ...

Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress ...