After the stress test, your cardiologist may or may not opt to have you undergo another type of CT test called a Calcium-score Screening Heart Scan.

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Now the team needed to get the kit and the scanning team down into the heart of Erte Ale and get a scan from within the crater itself.

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Mr Peuschel was first diagnosed with a heart complaint at the age of 11 and had been referred for an MRI scan following a routine scan just a month before his death, the Spilsby inquest was told.

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Compare an EKG to a CAT scan to the newest technologies where they can actually go inside a living heart.

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Another problem, Einstein noted, is that doctors often don't know what a patient's heart rate will be until he or she is on the table being readied for the scan.

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