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Heart Disease:Heart Tests

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Other Tests for Heart Disease


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We can assess the heart muscle before and after heart attack (:32)
Dr. Laurence Sperling explains the role of high-tech tests in assessing heart disease risk and heart damage.

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Laurence S. Sperling, MD, the founder and director of Preventive Cardiology at the Emory Clinic in Atlanta, explains the many heart tests that patients can get to predict heart disease and assess damage after a heart attack.



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