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Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Heart Attack(Free Handout)


Follow-up Tests

Before heart attack patients are discharged from the hospital, a stress test and/or a cardiac catheterization usually is performed. The primary purpose of a stress test is to determine if one or more of the coronary arteries has a significant blockage that is likely to cause problems in the near future. If a blockage is indicated by a stress test, cardiac catheterization is performed to obtain images of the cor...Read the full article