Cardiology Diagnostic Tests

[asc]

I am 61 and have a number of risk factors for coronary artery disease - family history, hypertension raised cholesterol, mildly raised glucose, overweight. Last year I developed chest pain on exertion, although when my BP was controlled, this stopped. In April I had a thallium scan, which showed no significant ischaemia. However, the problems have now returned with typical angina symptoms.

Has anyone had a negative radionuclide test in the presence of significant heart disease?

[UroDoc]

Given your test was 5 months ago you should follow up with your cardiologist since things may have changed, it might be time for an angiogram which would be a more definitive test. Good luck

[tcrow49]

Dear freind I have had chest pain, lost of breath' shortness of breath,light headedness and 2 going to er room, past a stress test ( tredmill ) echocardiagram and so on . Finally I just last night had a heart cath done . No big dill like I thought it would be the biggest fear was what they would find . And they gave me a clean bill of health on my heart and arteries, no blockage or heart problems. A lot of things will cause chest pain that has nothing to do with the heart but don't play guessing games on the internet to find out . Find you a heart center or doctor and let him check you out . If it comes down to a heart cath let them do it . This site says the odds are 1000 to 1 that something would go wrong but my doc said 2000 to 1 . Unless you are ellergic to medications a lot it is very very very slim that it will hurt you and I could write that very slim at least a 1000 more times to be accurate but the heart cath tells all and leaves no stones unturned . With All you risk I would go now and by the way if you have a blockage far more times than not they can do a stent or stents and fix the problem right then . If they see no problems and the doc knows what he's doing it only takes about 20 minute or so not 2 hours that's old school info now . They can also use a plug which lets you go home in about three ours after the surgery . I've had colonoscopy, sistoscopy, and this was far easyer than those . Hope this helps. and as I said in the beginning most of the time they will give it an all clear.