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An echocardiogram is non-invasive real-time test that will provide information about the heart structure (dimension, thickness and morphology) and function (contraction, wall abnormalities, capacity, valvular abnormalities).

While lying down an ultrasound probe is placed in your thorax to display real time images of your heart.

It allows to detect subclinical conditions that might be addressed early to avoid disease.

An electrocardiogram is a test to measure the electrical activity of the heart. It provides information regarding the rhythm, the frequency and about conduction abnormalities that might develop inside the heart.

While resting 10 electrodes attached to your body will register the activity of the heart for 10 seconds without any harm or danger.

It has been historically considered the first cardiology basic test to rule-out disease.

It's a test to measure the electrical activity of your heart during a complete day. It performs the recording of a continuos electrocardiogram during awake and sleeping hours.

5 electrodes will be held in your thorax to record 3 leads of electrocardiogram for an entire day including sleeping hours. The patient is scheduled to come for the holter to be placed (15 minutes) and to come back the next day to remove it (15 minutes). The device is portable and allows the patient to perform his common daily activities.

It’s the best test to detect common arrhythmias that might occur daily or almost in daily basis. It also allows to measure the arrhythmic charge and the average frequency of the heart being useful to control the response to medication.

It’s the ultimate test to measure blood pressure and diagnose or rule-out hypertension. Further on, allows to confirm the efficacity of treatment.

It’s a portable device that will automatically measure the blood pressure during a whole-day routine including the night-hours.

This several measurements will allow not only to identify the average blood pressure but also how it reacts during the day, the peaks, the minimal values and also will give us the information about it’s behaviour during the night hours.

It's a test to measure the functional capacity of your heart. Serial electrocardiograms and blood pressure measurements are performed from rest to the maximal effort and through the recovery period.

The patient will exercise in a static bicycle whit increasing resistance for 8 to 12 minutes until the maximal effort is achieved. The doctor will monitor the Electrocardiograms in real-time and perform several blood pressure measurements in all the stages of exercise.

It allows to detect exercise capacity and aptitude, ischemic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease and arrhythmic heart disease.

The VO2 Max Test is the ultimate assessment of your full performance capacity and the two ventilatory thresholds to determine the Exercise Heart Rate Zones. It gives you accurate information about your current performance and help guide your training.

The Metalizer 3-B By Cortex Medical, available at our center is the most accurate device to provide the measurements that will guide your training. The system allows a complete medical analysis of the functionality of a person's lung, heart and metabolism at rest and under stress.

• To assess your full performance
• To monitor the progress of your training.
• To know your heart zones and plan the most efficient training
• To avoid cardiac fatigue and boost your progression

A CPET, also know as the VO2 Max test is the ultimate non-invasive assessment “gold standard” of your performance capability and aerobic fitness. It examines how well the lungs, heart, and muscles work individually and together.

As in the cardiac stress test, the patient will be asked to exercise at increasing resistance in a bicycle until maximal exertion is reached while having his cardiac activity monitored by electrocardiograms, blood pressure measured at regular intervals and a face masf attached to measure the breath by breath, ventilation, oxygen consumption and carbon dioxyde production.

• Measure your full exercise capacity/performance.
• Know the adequate heart-rate / workload training zones for your objectives.
• Identify your fitness level and the aerobic fitness progression.
• Improve the exercise and aerobic capacity in deconditioned or cardiac patients with the adequate exercise prescription.

During a VO2 Max Test or CPET it's possible to continuously record your breathing pattern an ventilation. People that will suffer from obstructive or restrictive pulmonary diseases will develop certain findings that might guide your diagnosis.

While doing a VO2 Max Test or CPET, you'll have to breathe into a small machine called a spirometer.

It's especially helpful in exercise-induced-asthma or exercise-induced-bronchoespasm.