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• Stress test: this type involves raising the heart rate with exercise or medicine while
performing heart tests and check how the heart responds.
• Echocardiogram: shows detailed images of heart's structure and function by using an
ultrasound waves applied to patient’s chest.
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Ultrafast computed tomography (CT)
• Digital cardiac angiography (DCA)
• Cardiac laboratory tests.
Figure 65: Techniques for diagnosing heart disease
Stress test
Cardiac markers must be:
• Located in the myocardium.
• Released in cardiac injury: myocardial infarction, unstable angina, trauma, cardiac surgery,
myocarditis.
• Can be measured in blood samples.
