2. Echocardiography Uses ultrasound to see internal cardiac structures Provides information about shape and size of heart Helpful in evaluating heart valve activity Can detect improper cardiac muscle activity
3. Cardiac Enzymes Blood test to determine the amount of cardiac muscle specific enzymes in the blood Cardiac enzymes include creatine phosphokinase (CPK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT). Elevated levels of cardiac enzymes may be indicative of heart muscle damage
4. Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) PTCA is used to treat localized coronary artery narrowing A balloon catheter is inserted into the atherosclerosed coronary artery and the balloon is inflated to compress the plaque Once the catheter is removed, the plaque remains compressed allowing the artery to remain dilated
5. Resources Fremgen, Bonnie, Suzanne Frucht. Medical Terminology: A Living Language. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education Inc., 2009.
