Would a full heart check up, stress test, and and echo-cardiogram tell if you had Angina?
Echocardiogram, though capable of detecting several heart abnormality, is more of a structural detector than functional one. The stress test gives a better idea about coronary blood flow and can detect single or multiple vessel blocks. Yet, exercise tolerance testing has a sensitivity of 70 per cent and a specificity of 80 per cent. A more efficient test for IHD is Stress Echocardiogram. In stress echocardiography, myocardial stress (induced by exercise or drugs) may reveal areas of ischaemia not demonstrable at rest. The sensitivity and specificity of stress echocardiography for IHD are 80 per cent and 90 per cent respectively. Well, I am only telling you about the reliability of tests for IHD. For all we know, the tests you did can fairly map out your coronary status and you have been declared fit. I feel that your “discomfort in my chest and I need to yawn to get air” looks more like an anxiety symptom than anything else. But then people with anxiety need foolproof methods to reassu
