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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

At first glance, the subject of heart disease can seem exceptionally complex – consisting of several different conditions, medical jargon and very scary sounding terminology. Hence to my mind a really good way of assessing the heart as a pump is a test called an exercise stress echo.

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What do heart tests tell us?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

So virtually all the tests that we do on the heart are driven by the need to know more about the pumping ability of the heart, the heart arteries and the electrics of the heart. If the heart has been left damaged, then that part of. So we need different tests when we are evaluating the heart arteries.