Q: I am 52 years of age and have had paroxysmal AF for the past 16 years for which I have been prescribed Sotalol to be taken when required. Recently I had an ECG that showed a QTc of 464 and my cardiologist referred me for a number of tests including an Echocardiogram, a stress test and ambulatory monitoring. I …
Anxiety, chest pains, a racing heart and a slow heart rate
Q: I am a 45 year old female in good health/weight with no outstanding health issues. In the last year, I have noticed some bouts with anxiety (racing heart) and also chest tightness, uncomfortable feeling in left arm and “lazy” fingers (middle finger thru pinky). I have not been to a doctor in 10 years. Just went because of worrying …
Diet and LDL
Q: I’m 28, I don’t take medications, I weight 146 lbs, my blood pressure is 110/70, and my height is 5’10. Before my diet, my LDL was 185mg/dl, my HDL was 55, my VLDL was 20, and my total cholesterol was 259. Since my father developed heart disease at age 60 I went on a low fat vegan diet. After …
RBBB and palpitations
Q: I have RBBB, and occasional PVC’s, sometimes during exercise. Should answer 1 say ‘or you have PVC’s with right bundle branch block morphology on EKG’?? Could you tell me, are there PVC’s with a left and right bbb morphology (and which is visible on the EKG?) The first answer scared me a little bit, to be honest. Sometimes I …
Pulmonary stenosis
Subvalvular (Right ventricular outflow tract) Valvular Supravalvular (pulmonary truncus) Peripheral (at the bifurcation) Peripheral in the pulmonary artery Isolated PS occurs with a frequency of 9% of all congenital cardiac abnormalities and, combined with other cardiac abnormalities, with a frequency of nearly 21%. All forms lead to an obstruction of blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary arteries. …
My doctor will not tell me about the results of my carotid ultrasound
Q: Three weeks ago, I woke up with blurred vision in my right eye. Last winter I had a problem with this eye (faces on TV screen “split”) for a couple of hours and had an MRI/MRA of my brain, normal results. I went to the ER after the latest incident, attending couldn’t find anything alarming, referred me to ophthalmologist, …
Can you live with a very bad heart?
Q: If you would kindly tell me how does it feel….when a person is only using 20% of their heart. Can they survive?
PVCs and floppy mitral valve
Q: Hello, I am a 34 year old female 5’6″ 133lbs. Cholesterol is good, I don’t smoke or drink alcohol. I have pvcs and pacs (both caught with EKG and 24 hr holter monitor. I had an echo done that shows MVP with mild regurgitation. I have days that the pvcs/pacs are rarely felt at all. This can last for …
Stress tests and heart failure
Q: I have had 2 stress echos and each of them have an NYHA Class I listed on the bottom. There is no mention of heart failure in the report. Is this just a blank that has to be filled in, so they put a 1? If not, can it be due to the fact that I was only able …
I have an abnormal ekg
i am 54 white female who just had a ekg done for a post surgery this friday the dr. said it came back abnormal. i do have a family history of heart disease. i take atenolol 50 mg i have no sypmtons should i be worried. i am now a mess