Test category · Specialty diagnostics

Cardiovascular

Recordings, ultrasound, stress, catheter and vascular tests of the heart and blood vessels.

Tests with a page

Medical test

Ambulatory ECG monitoring

Medical test

Blood pressure measurement

Medical test

BNP and NT-proBNP test

Medical test

Cardiac stress test

Medical test

Echocardiogram

Medical test

Electrocardiogram

Medical test

Troponin test

Imaging study

MRI scan

Imaging study

Ultrasound

Procedure

Cardiac catheterisation

Concepts covered by those pages

Cardiac MRI CMRResting electrocardiogram ECG, EKG12-lead ECGAmbulatory ECG monitoringHolter monitorEvent monitorPatch ECG monitorImplantable loop recorder ILRExercise treadmill test ETTExercise ECGStress echocardiographyNuclear stress testPharmacological stress testTransthoracic echocardiogram TTETransoesophageal echocardiogram TOE, TEEDoppler echocardiographyBubble studyStrain echocardiographyCardiac catheterisationCoronary angiographyRight-heart catheterisationLeft-heart catheterisationFractional flow reserve FFRCarotid ultrasoundVenous duplex ultrasoundArterial duplex ultrasoundAmbulatory blood-pressure monitoring ABPMHome blood-pressure monitoring HBPMTroponinB-type natriuretic peptide BNP, NT-proBNP

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) Imaging
  • Coronary calcium scan · also: calcium score CT Imaging
  • Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) Diagnostic procedure
  • Optical coherence tomography (coronary) (OCT) Diagnostic procedure
  • Ankle-brachial index (ABI, ABPI) · also: ankle-brachial pressure index Measurement
  • Pulse-volume recording (PVR) Functional test
  • Tilt-table test · also: head-up tilt test Functional test
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