Alpharetta Cardiology, LLC provides comprehensive office procedures, including our Heart Screen Program.
Heart Screen ProGram
Are you concerned about your heart health? Do you have a family history of heart disease? Are you concerned that you may have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol? Are you a smoker? Are you about to embark on an exercise program and want to know if you are healthy enough for exercise? If you answer yes to any of these questions, our heart screen program may be for you.
In-Office Procedures
Treadmill Stress Test
A basic stress test that involves walking on a treadmill and monitoring your heart with leads on your chest.
Echocardiogram
An ultrasound test to evaluate for structural abnormalities of your heart.
Holter Monitor
A monitor worn for 24 hours or more to record irregular or fast heart beats.
Event Monitor
A monitor worn as needed to record irregular or fast heart beats.
Stress Echocardiogram
A treadmill stress test with an ultrasound that looks at your heart before and after exercise.
Exercise Nuclear Stress Test
An extensive stress test where a radioactive tracer is injected into your bloodstream before and after exercise on a treadmill. A scanner is used to image how well your heart takes up the tracer.
Pharmacologic (No Exercise) Nuclear Stress Test
A stress test similar to an exercise nuclear stress test but without walking on a treadmill. A medication is given intravenously to simulate a stress.
Hospital Procedures
Transesophageal Echocardiogram
A diagnostic procedure that places an ultrasound probe into the throat to take closer images of the heart.
Tilt Table
A study done by standing on a table, that tilts at a certain angle to evaluate fainting or dizzy spells.
Cardioversion
Electrical shock to the heart to get it back in normal rhythm.
