How can you find out whether a person had a heart attack earlier? ECG can detect an old heart attack even years later. Old myocardial infarctions (technical term
How can you differentiate hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from athlete’s heart? Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a hereditary disease with almost 50% recurrence in first order relatives. Athlete’s heart is a
How can you check whether a stent has been inserted in the coronary artery? Coronary stents are thin spring like metallic structures and will not be visible on
How can people with normal cholesterol get a heart attack? Cholesterol is only one among the several risk factors for a heart attack. Risk factors can be classified
How can genetically determined high cholesterol be treated? Genetically determined cholesterol elevation also responds to low fat diet, exercise and medicines like statins. Some may need a special
How can a cervical rib produce symptoms similar to heart attack? സെർവിക്കൽ റിബിന് എങ്ങനെയാണ് ഹൃദയാഘാതത്തിന് സമാനമായ ലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നത്? सर्वाइकल रिब (गर्दन में पसली) हार्ट अटैक जैसे लक्षण कैसे
Electrocardiogram (ECG) The modern electrocardiograph was invented more than a hundred years ago. An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body
Echocardiography Echocardiography (echo) is an imaging technique to view the structure of the heart. It uses an ultrasound beam to scan the heart and the echoes received from
