A cardiac stress test shows how your heart works during physical activity. Vienybe/Dreamstime/TNS Heart health is an essential part of your overall health and well-being. Your primary care provider ...

An echocardiogram is the primary diagnostic tool used for tricuspid regurgitation. Also called a diagnostic cardiac ultrasound, this test uses ultrasound technology to produce images of your heart’s ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has published a comprehensive roadmap that details the use of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) to guide structural heart disease ...

Heart disease is the most lethal disease in America, according to the American Heart Association—killing 2,500 people per day, or one person every 34 seconds. The growing prevalence of obesity, high ...

NT-proBNP testing should become compulsory for referring patients to specialist heart failure services to improve diagnosis, ...

Q: My husband is 65 years old and had a stress echocardiogram test that did not indicate any heart disease. How definitive is this test? His father died at 62 of a heart attack, and an uncle died at ...

Researchers in China report that a simple heart ultrasound measure of left ventricular underfilling is a valuable prognostic ...

Heart health is an essential part of your overall health and well-being. Your primary care provider will monitor your blood pressure and lab work during an annual physical exam or more frequently. If ...