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What do heart tests tell us?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Patients with a completely normal CT scan are very unlikely to have a heart attack within the next 3-5 years. Functional tests – these tests are not directly looking at the coronary arteries but instead look at the heart muscle itself and tell us whether heart muscle gets all the blood it needs when it needs it.