An individual’s sleep latency can be an indicator of the overall quality of their sleep. Quickly falling asleep during the day and rapidly entering REM sleep can suggest a condition such as narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia. The Multiple Latency Test is often used to diagnose these conditions...
Blood Gas Test: Physicians use a blood gas test or an arterial blood gas test in certain situations where a person faces shortness of breath. This test is used to diagnose diseases associated with the lungs, blood vessels, or kidneys. During the test, the wrist...
Vestibular-Ocular Reflex (VOR) test is used to diagnose the cause of recurrent vertigo (giddiness). VOR can be tested using three methods Vestibular-Ocular Reflex (VOR) test is used to diagnose the cause of recurrent vertigo (giddiness). VOR is a reflex eye movement that stabilizes images ...
The CRP test is increasingly used to determine a person's risk of heart attack or stroke and whether medications are needed to help lower the risk. With heart disease, CRP levels tend to be modestly elevated and will gradually increase as the disease progresses. A test called a high-sensitiv...
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a common cause of hypertension and renal insufficiency, especially in the elderly population. There are several excellent diagnostic tests available to diagnose RAS. Renal artery duplex ultrasound, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), and spiral CT angiography have been...
Your doctor may need to test you for orthostatic hypertension more than once to confirm the diagnosis. They might also have you wear a small device called an ambulatory blood pressure monitor. It measures and records your BP every 30 minutes or so for 24 hours. ...
A number of studies have suggested that pediatricians are not good at recognizing hypertension in children, even when the child has a recorded blood pressure that is abnormal by normative data. How could this be? Do we not think that hypertension is important, or do we not appreciate that a...
(ECG or EKG)Eelectrocardiogram:A noninvasive diagnostic test that uses flat metal electrodes placed on your chest to evaluate the electrical activity of your heart during beating Echocardiogram:A noninvasive ultrasound imaging test used to observe your heart and diagnose any structural defects ...
As it turns out, critically low blood pressure is less common compared to hypertension, and the body typically provides alerts before it becomes fatal. One of the notable changes from the previous version is that AHA has redefined 130/80 mmHg as the new threshold for high blood pressure, repl...
Electrophysiological test Cerebrospinal fluid exam (spinal tap, lumbar puncture) Evoked potential (EP) tests Optical coherence tomography (OCT) Blood tests Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis and MRIs One of the main ways to diagnose multiple sclerosis is an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan. Characteristic...