Evaluating Your Heart Condition

Assessing symptoms of a heart disease or a heart attack is a process that includes dialog with your physician or cardiologist plus a variety of tests related to your conditions. Your physician or cardiologist will work with us to make this process as convenient and quick as needed.

Evaluation of your heart typically follows this order:

Non-Invasive Procedures

  • Your Medical History
  • Physical Exam
  • Laboratory Tests Electrocardiography (EKG)
  • Holter Monitoring
  • Echocardiography tests
  • Transesophageal (TEE)
  • Chest X-ray
  • Exercise Testing or Stress Test including
  • Nuclear Imaging Stress Test
  • Radiographic Tests – 64 slice CT
  • Cardiac MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Calcium Scoring Heart Scan
  • Carotoid Scans
  • Vascular Assessments

Invasive Procedures

  • Angioplasty
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Transradial Cardiac Catheterization
  • Coronary Artery Angiography
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
  • Pacemaker Implantation
  • Cardiac Rhythm Management