Heart symptoms and lung problems tend to come hand in hand. Below are some tests used to discover problems with the heart and lungs: Pulse oximetry. This measures how well the heart is delivering oxygen throughout the body. A clip is attached to a finger, and shines an infrared light through the skin, registering how much […]
IVUS
Intravascular ultrasound, or IVUS, assists in diagnosing coronary artery disease. It creates a motion picture of the inside of your coronary arteries using high-frequency sound saves. This is performed in the cardiac cath lab, where a device called a transducer is attached to a catheter and introduced to your heart through an artery. The transducer […]