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Originally Posted by Kayaken I was told today by a heart doctor that I have what he termed "severe acute EKG disorder". The heart pictures before the treadmill looked okay. The echo stress test was great, but he termed the phrase as having a severe EKG problem. The heart pictures after the treadmill showed all of the readings going below marginal readings. I don't understand the terminology but wonder if someone could try and explain it a little. Thanks. |
Part of the treadmill exercise is to time (post exercise) the recovery from peak time. Time is an important factor to judge physical fitness and that helps separate fitness condition from medical problem.
You can search this forum for "EKG" and locate the post where I month or so ago went into detail regarding EKG testing, its parameters, and signifcance for each wave form.
"Severe acute EKG disorder" is very general and could mean almost anything!! Whatever it refers to it is a present condition (not chronic), severe and abnormal.
An EKG gives a graphic printout of electrical conduction through different parts of the heart and is able to show heart muscle damage, oversized heart chambers as well as electrical signals through the pathways from the upper chambers to the lower chambers and determine if there are any blockages that would hinder contraction, etc.
The echo gives a visual display of the heart, measurement of the heart chambers, valve openings, and the doppler will display in color the blood flow through the valves and whether or not there is any back flow into the receiving chamber. This regurgitation can be measured.
If you can provide the EKG disorder, is it right or left bundle branch blockage? That would indicate an arrythmatic disorder meaning the upper chambers of the heart or not in sync with the lower! A EKG disorder could be a fast beating heart at the time of the test!!
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