Last week I took a stress test (treadmill) and it seems my results were somewhat abnormal. I’m not a cardiologist so I’ve got no real idea what it means, but I seemed to have some extra wiggles where there should have been straight lines; “wiggles” are the technical term I believe.
Today my doctor’s office called and told me that I’d be need to take another test, this time an “isotope stress test”; I’d guess the same sort of test with imaging.
Here’s a link to a site explaining a bit more about isotope stress tests.
I think the real test is to let you worry about this for a few days and let the stress build up – then they measure it. The treadmill itself is just a gimmick 🙂
There’s an excellent beating heart at Heart Site:
FullHeart_L2.swf
Or this somewhat more lighthearted version…
AMAZING Beating Heart (origami) – video powered by Metacafe
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…