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Cardiovascular Tests and Procedures
Overview of Cardiovascular Tests and Procedures
Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiac Imaging Tests
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography
Electrophysiologic Studies (EPS)
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
Radionuclide Imaging
Stress Testing
Tilt Table Testing

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Overview of Cardiovascular Tests and Procedures

By

Thomas Cascino

, MD, MSc,

  • University of Michigan
;


Michael J. Shea

, MD, Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan

Last full review/revision Aug 2019| Content last modified Aug 2019
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Many noninvasive and invasive tests can delineate cardiac structure and function (see table Tests for Assessing Cardiac Anatomy and Function). Also, treatments can be administered during certain invasive diagnostic tests (eg, percutaneous coronary intervention during cardiac catheterization, radiofrequency ablation during electrophysiologic testing).

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Tests for Assessing Cardiac Anatomy and Function

Application

Tests

Left ventricular function

Echocardiography

Multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) radionuclide imaging

Gated MRI

Contrast ventriculography

Coronary artery disease diagnosis and prognosis

Exercise or pharmacologic stress testing with ECG, myocardial perfusion imaging, or echocardiography

Magnetic resonance angiography

Coronary angiography

Intravascular ultrasonography

Multidetector CT coronary angiography

Myocardial viability

Resting single-photon emission CT (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging

Stress testing (using low-dose dobutamine) with echocardiography

Positron emission tomography (PET)

Gated MRI
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