The Stress Echocardiogram: What to Expect
A stress echocardiogram combines an ultrasound of the heart with an exercise challenge, revealing how the heart performs under pressure, not just at rest.
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The Nuclear Stress Test: What It Is, What to Expect, and Why It’s Requested
The nuclear stress test, myocardial perfusion imaging, provides a detailed map of blood flow through the heart muscle at rest and under stress. It’s typically requested when other investigations haven’t provided sufficient information.
T Wave Inversion on Your ECG: What It Actually Means
T wave inversion describes a small wave on the tracing pointing down instead of up. In several of the heart’s twelve viewpoints that is completely normal. What matters is which ones, and whether it is new.
When Blood Pressure Won’t Come Down: What Happens Next
Blood pressure that stays high despite three or more medications has a name, and in most cases an explanation. What clinicians check first, why spironolactone is usually the fourth medicine added, and how narrow the role of renal denervation really is.
The Hair Loss Question
Hair clinics and GPs increasingly send people to check with their heart doctor before starting treatment. There is a good reason for that, and it runs in both directions.
Beta-Blockers: Uses, Side Effects, and Precautions
Beta-blockers calm the heart by blocking adrenaline, and they treat far more than blood pressure. Here is what yours is doing, the side effects worth knowing about including vivid dreams, and why you must never stop one suddenly.
Aortic Dissection: The Chest Pain That Cannot Wait
Most cardiac emergencies build gradually. An aortic dissection does not. It arrives at full force in people who felt perfectly well moments earlier, and recognising the pain is what gets you to hospital in time.
The Positive Heart Health Benefits of Olive Oil
Extra-virgin olive oil has more evidence behind it than almost any other food in cardiovascular nutrition. Here is what the research actually shows, and how to make the most of it.
SCAD: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: What It Is and What to Expect
SCAD is a heart attack caused by a tear in the artery wall, not cholesterol. It mostly affects healthy women in their 40s and 50s, and the recovery outlook for most people is genuinely positive.