An Echocardiogram (or cardiac ultrasound) is an ultrasound of the heart used to measures blood flow through the heart, heart valve structure, and heart wall function.
Last October, Vickie Christ, 65, of Mt. Morris, was having trouble breathing, so she called her primary care doctor to prescribe an inhaler, as she thought it might just be very bad allergies. Once her doctor assessed her symptoms, and they seemed worse than just allergies, he suggested she go to the emergency room at McLaren Flint. “I was admitted at McLaren Flint, and they began doing every necessary test to find out why I was having trouble breathing,” said Vickie. “It was discovered that I had pneum...
Type 2 diabetes cases continue to rise, and heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women. But what do they have to do with each other? “Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease,” said Dr. Hameem Changezi , an interventional cardiologist at McLaren Flint. “Amongst the alterations that occur within the body, there are cholesterol abnormalities that develop resulting in high "bad" cholesterol as well as triglycerides, which cause cholesterol deposition in arteries and block...
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is the most common irregular heart rhythm. The American Heart Association estimates between three and six million Americans are living with the arrhythmia. It is difficult to get an exact number of people affected because it is possible to have AFib and not realize it. “Sometimes atrial fibrillation can be asymptomatic,” says McLaren Flint interventional cardiologist Dr. Hameem Changezi . AFib typically causes heart palpitations, a fluttering feeling, or the sensation...