Healthe Heart Clinician Information

Healthe Heart is a cardiac support service offered by Lingard Private Hospital. Healthe Heart Cardiac testing offers a range of services including:

• Transthoracic Echo
• Stress Echo
• Holter Monitor
• Event Monitor
• Atrial Fibrillation Clinic
• Heart Failure Clinic

Patients require a GP referral to the service where cardiac testing will be bulk billed. Once our team received your referral you will receive consultation/testing within one week (prioritised by urgency) with referrers receiving report within 48 hours of testing.

For all appointments call 02 4918 0150

Clinical Indications for Stress Echocardiography

1. Situations where the ECG is abnormal such as LBBB, RBBB, LVH, LVH with Strain WPW.
2. Coronary artery disease diagnosis (i.e. suspected angina).
3. Menstruating women or women on HRT (high false positive rate on stress testing).
4. Patients with Hypertension (high false positive rate on stress testing).
5. Evaluation for cardiac aetiology of exertional dyspnoea.
6. Prior false positive or false negative stress tests or patients in whom the stress test yielded ambiguous results (equivocal or weakly positive result).
7. Evaluation after any form of revascularisation.
8. Ischaemia location.
9. Pre-operative risk assessment.
10. Prognosis and risk stratification in patients with established diagnosis (e.g. after myocardial infarction).
11. Evaluation of heart valve stenosis severity or left ventricular functional residue in regurgitant lesions.

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