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David RichardsonU.S.
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Adult heart function and disease. Not very good about children lesss than 12. Hypertension is o.k. Heart rhythm a special interest. | |
Frank J. Pearl, M.D.U.S.
On Vacation
returns 02/15/2010 |
Voluntary Professor of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Board certified in cardiovascular disease |
About 55 years. No Doesn't sound like cardiac pain at all. Stress tests monitored by echo or radioisotopes are pretty sensitive. A negative stress test gives 95% probability of no heart attack or cardiac
Dear Michael, 1. No 2. Event monitors are not ver sensitive about chest pain. 3 The most common cause of chest pain in a young person is cramping of the muscles in the chest wall. This pain can radiate
Dear Danielle, There's this rare endocrine disorder called pheochromocytoma, tumor of an adrenal gland that leads to episodes of severe hypertension. Ask your doctors if that's possible. Please
Dear Donna, SVT is not a danger to life, just a nuisance. The only worsening possible is that an episode would last longer. AFib is totally irregular heart rhythm. You can tell it easily on a Holter
Dear Michelle, It's hard to see the arch of the aorta and the first part of the descending aorta on transthoracic echo. Tranesophageal is better, but with possible aortic dissection, maybe CT or MRI

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