Hello gents. Long story short I decided to get a calcium score done and a nuclear stress test after some bodybuilding friends of mine had heart scares.
This is the procedure where they inject tracer dye into you, run some scans and put you on a treadmill.
the good news is my calcium score came back at 0
the bad news is my “gated wall motion analysis” was globally hypokinetic
stress left ventricle ejection fraction 42%
resting left ventricle ejection fraction 38%
These numbers both scared and surprised me. Last i had a tradtional echo cardiogram about 5-6 years ago my EF was well above 50% but perhaps things degraded since.
the course of action noted by the doctor is to follow up with an echo cardiogram on the ventricle for more analysis.
so question, is an echo cardiogram more accurate? I swore the test i did should have been the be all, end all for tests like this to determine heart function but the doc says to do an echo. Is it possible this test is not 100% accurate with the ejection fraction?
lastly, i have no symptoms of cardiomyopathy and im on a trt dose of test.
comments and questions are welcome. Thanks guys.
This is the procedure where they inject tracer dye into you, run some scans and put you on a treadmill.
the good news is my calcium score came back at 0
the bad news is my “gated wall motion analysis” was globally hypokinetic
stress left ventricle ejection fraction 42%
resting left ventricle ejection fraction 38%
These numbers both scared and surprised me. Last i had a tradtional echo cardiogram about 5-6 years ago my EF was well above 50% but perhaps things degraded since.
the course of action noted by the doctor is to follow up with an echo cardiogram on the ventricle for more analysis.
so question, is an echo cardiogram more accurate? I swore the test i did should have been the be all, end all for tests like this to determine heart function but the doc says to do an echo. Is it possible this test is not 100% accurate with the ejection fraction?
lastly, i have no symptoms of cardiomyopathy and im on a trt dose of test.
comments and questions are welcome. Thanks guys.