| People suffering from heart diseases are being | | | | The test determines whether your heart is |
| treated with various heart surgery techniques. | | | | beating properly and your pulse rate is steady or |
| When treatments by medicines, changing lifestyle | | | | uneven. It also shows from where the electrical |
| and various medical procedures fail to work, then | | | | activity starts in your heart and will it travel in a |
| heart surgery is the last option. Heart surgery | | | | normal way through your heart. |
| involves treatment of coronary artery disease | | | | Stress test: |
| and cardiovascular attacks. It is also used to | | | | You can easily diagnose some of the heart |
| replace damaged heart with the healthy one as | | | | diseases, if your pulse rate is faster and your |
| well as to fix the heart valves for the proper | | | | heart, is working hard at normal times. At the |
| regulation of your heart-beat. | | | | time of stress testing, you are supposed to work |
| Whether you need heart surgery or not is | | | | hard so as to increase your heart beat. You can |
| decided by a doctor or a cardiologist or a | | | | do this by exercise or if you are not able to |
| cardiothoracic surgeon. As they have specialization | | | | exercise, then some medicines are given to you. |
| in treating cardiovascular problems, they will | | | | During stress testing, your EKG as well as your |
| advise you whether you need to go for heart | | | | blood pressure is checked. |
| surgery or not. Since there are a lot of tests that | | | | Echocardiography: |
| help to determine heart problems, they come in | | | | It is very simple and painless test. In this type of |
| handy for diagnosing the heart disease you are | | | | test, no instrument or equipments are used to |
| suffering from. The doctor will also determine | | | | perform this test. It is also known as |
| whether you do need surgery at all or not and | | | | “NON-invasive” test as no surgical tool is |
| what type of surgery you need and at what | | | | inserted in the body. In this test, sound waves |
| time. | | | | are used which create a moving picture of your |
| There are a variety of diagnosing tests that are | | | | heart. It gives the information about the shape |
| given below: | | | | and size of the heart. It also provides the |
| Diagnosing tests: | | | | information related to the proper functioning of |
| EKG (Electrocardiogram): | | | | the heart chambers. |
| It is the easiest and painless test that accounts | | | | The test determines the areas where the less |
| the electrical activity of your heart. This test helps | | | | blood flow is towards your heart. It also detects |
| in determining the source and exact position of | | | | the heart muscles that are not contracting |
| the heart problems. The test is performed by | | | | properly and the damage to your heart muscle |
| attaching sticky patches known as electrodes to | | | | caused by poor blood flow. These are the general |
| the legs, arms and the skin of your chest. Then | | | | tests that are used to determine heart disease. |
| these electrodes in turn attached to the wires of | | | | So, with the help of these tests, you can |
| a machine that accounts the electrical signals from | | | | successfully diagnose your various heart problems. |
| your heart. | | | | |