Testing & Diagnostics
Every test below is performed and interpreted within our practice — so results arrive with context, not just numbers. Here's what each one tells us about your heart.
The Diagnostics
A quick, painless recording of your heart's electrical activity. It screens for rhythm abnormalities, evidence of prior injury, and electrical patterns that warrant a closer look — the baseline every cardiac workup starts from.
A low-dose CT scan that directly measures calcified plaque in the coronary arteries. Your calcium score is one of the strongest predictors of future heart attack risk — and a powerful way to detect disease years before symptoms.
A non-invasive ultrasound of the body's largest artery, screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm — a silent, dangerous enlargement that is highly treatable when caught early.
An ultrasound measurement of the artery walls in your neck. Thickening here reflects early atherosclerosis throughout the body, letting us track vascular aging and stroke risk long before a blockage forms.
Undiagnosed sleep apnea drives hypertension, arrhythmia, and cardiac strain. A comfortable overnight study in your own bed tells us whether your sleep is protecting your heart — or quietly working against it.
A wearable monitor that records your heart rhythm over days to weeks of normal life, catching intermittent arrhythmias — like atrial fibrillation — that a single in-office EKG can miss.
Blood pressure measured around the clock, awake and asleep. It unmasks white-coat readings, hidden hypertension, and abnormal nighttime patterns — the data needed to treat your real blood pressure, not your office number.
Ultrasound imaging of your heart at rest and under exercise stress. It shows how your heart muscle and valves actually perform under load — detecting flow-limiting coronary disease and measuring true functional capacity.
The ankle-brachial index compares blood pressure in your legs and arms, before and after walking, to detect peripheral artery disease — a circulation problem that also signals elevated heart attack and stroke risk.
Beyond standard cholesterol: particle numbers, lipoprotein(a), apolipoprotein B, and inflammatory markers such as hs-CRP. These refine your risk estimate and often change the treatment plan a basic panel would have missed.
“Testing is only half the picture. The other half is a cardiologist sitting with you, explaining what every number means — and what we're going to do about it.”