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Procedure
- Ankle Brachial Index; ABI: To screen for blocked arteries (peripheral vascular disease).
- Echocardiogram: To diagnose cardiovascular diseases. It can provide a helpful information, including the size and shape of the heart, its pumping capacity and the location and extent of any damage to its tissues, assessing diseases of the heart valves that are evaluate the heart valves and detect abnormalities in the pattern of blood flow, such as the backward flow of blood through partly closed heart valves, known as regurgitation. By assessing the motion of the heart wall, echocardiography can help detect the presence and assess the severity of coronary artery disease, as well as help determine whether any chest pain is related to heart disease. Echocardiography can also help detect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The biggest advantage to echocardiography is that it is noninvasive (doesn't involve breaking the skin or entering body cavities) and has no known risks or side effects.
- Exercise Stress Test; EST: is an evaluation modality used in cardiology in which the ability of the heart that respond to stress. The image created by its recording is known as an electrocardiogram or ECG. The test is typically included in the initial evaluation of suspected ischemic heart disease, and a prognostic indicator after myocardial infarction.
- Cardiac CT angiography: the model of ultrafast computed tomography to help determine significant narrowing and calcium deposit in the coronary arteries. Moreover, it is used to examine the function of cardiac muscle, pericardium and artery of the other parts throughout the body.
GI
- Gastroscopy: a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract up to the duodenum. It is considered a minimally invasive procedure since it does not require an incision into one of the major body cavities and does not require any significant recovery after the procedure.
- Colonoscopy: an endoscopic examination of the large colon and the distal part of the small bowel with a camera or a fiber optic camera on a flexible tube passed through the anus. It may provide a visual diagnosis (e.g. ulceration, polyps) and grants the opportunity for biopsy or removal of suspected lesions.
- Virtual colonoscopy: a medical imaging procedure which uses x-rays and computers to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon (large intestine) from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way to the lower end of the small intestine and display them on a screen. The procedure is used to diagnose colon and bowel disease, including polyps, diverticulosis and cancer.
- U/S upper abdominal: to produce a picture of the organs and other structures in the upper abdomen:
- Abdominal aorta
- Liver
- Gallbladder
- Spleen
- Pancreas
- Kidneys
- U/S lowers abdominal: to evaluate the structures and organs in the lower abdominal area (pelvis).
Woman health
- Bone Mineral Density; BMD: a medical term referring to the amount of matter per cubic centimeter of bones. The measurement is painless and non-invasive and involves minimal radiation exposure.
- Papanicolaou test; Pep smear: a screening test used in gynecology to detect premalignant and malignant (cancerous) processes in the ectocervix. Significant changes can be treated, thus preventing cervical cancer.
- U/S breast:
- A screening test to help diagnose breast abnormalities and to characterize potential abnormalities seen on mammography.
- To determine if an abnormality is solid or fluid-filled or both cystic and solid.
- Show additional features of the abnormal area.
- Mammogram:
- Highly-sensitive digital X-ray technology that may detect small lumps that otherwise would not be detected through self-exam.
- To screen the breast and early detect the breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or micro calcifications.
