Why You Should Get The Apollo Advanced Heart Check
In 2005, 16 million people in the U.S. had heart disease. Though many treatments are available from statins, to screening, to diet and exercise regimens, this common disease is a killer. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about every 26 seconds, an American will have a coronary event, and about one every minute will die from one.

The Apollo Advanced Heart Check
The Apollo Advanced Heart Check is a comprehensive set of tests, which assess the state of your cardiovascular system. In addition, this check-up includes consultation with a cardiologist, evaluation of the risk factors and advice on possible lifestyle changes, which will help you lead a healthier life. It gives you a complete picture of your heart. The Check is designed to measure and check all parameters of the heart to find out if any problem exists or if you are at risk of any heart disease.

The advanced heart check has the following features:

Complete Blood Picture:
Testing blood is a very common diagnostic tool used to identify any problem in our body mechanism.  Blood test gives you a picture of normal ranges of blood cells and helps us monitor the disorders of organs and their impact. The Hemoglobin, Heamotocrit, RBC and WBC counts, Neutrophils and Eosinophil counts are assessed through the test.

Complete Urine Examination:
Waste products are usually excreted by the kidneys. High levels of proteins, sugars indicate that the kidney functioning is not optimal and it is associated with disorders especially related to heart like diabetes and hypertension. A complete urine examination is conducted to asses these factors.

Serum Creatinine:
This test is also an indicator of how the kidney is functioning.

Fasting Blood Sugar:
Diabetes Mellitus is the most common risk factor for heart diseases. Fasting blood sugar test is done to asses the sugar levels in the body.

Lipid Profile:
The cholesterol levels in the body are assessed by lipid profile test. Cholesterol is a type of fat found in your blood and high levels may lead to coronary artery disease.     

Electrocardiogram (ECG):
ECG is used to determine the electrical activity of your heart in a graph format. Any abnormalities like rhythm, blood flow, stroke, heart enlargement are recorded.

Stress Test (TMT):
As the name implies stress test determines how the heart reacts under stress. It involves walking on the treadmill and electrodes are attached to your body that gives the picture of your ECG, blood pressure and heart rate.

Chest X-Ray
The X Ray is performed to give us an image of the heart and lungs. Any enlargement and abnormalities can be assessed by the chest X ray.

Non invasive 320 slice C.T. Angiogram:
You will walk in for  your heart CT Scan with Toshiba’s new Aquilon One state-of-the-art imaging equipment, the 320 Slice Computed Tomography Scanner. This is the world’s most advanced and only 320-Slice CT system, There will be visible relief. First, the $1.5 million camera is shaped like a doughnut, as opposed to the MRI toothpaste tube, so you aren't shoved into a claustrophobia chamber for 30 minutes to an hour and asked to stay deathly still.
With the 320-slice scanner, you will lie on a sled that moves into the camera lens, which stops at the chest area. Head and legs are unencumbered. Minutes later you are done and on your way, You will also be doubly relieved that you did not  have to get a catheter threaded into your artery and stay flat on your backs for six hours of X-rays, as with the traditional, invasive angiogram.
Apollo’s Senior Radiologist will be administering the CT Heart Scan. From his point of view there is visual relief as well. Instead of standing over a patient who has a plastic tube in his groin, next to an X-ray machine. He will be sitting in a control room 20 feet away, seeing a clear colorized picture of your heart in 3-D on a computer screen.

It will take a minute and a half to shoot the whole heart, as you are breathing and your heart beating 60 beats per minute, blurring the image. With the 320-slice, the entire surface of the heart can be shot in just half-a second while you hold your breath.
Immediately before the heart takes its next beat, the radiologist will have a window of about a sixth of a second when the heart isn't moving. The 320-slice can stop this action, and the picture is broken into 320 pieces, like a loaf of thinly sliced bread. Besides providing a significantly improved image of arteries and veins, the 320 Slice CT scanner throws up in that same half-a-second, accurate images of the valves, the chambers of the heart, its wall and the pericardial sac that surrounds it.

Cardiologists Consultation:
After the tests, x rays and scans have been performed the Apollo Hospital cardiac team will review all your reports and will meet you with their opinion and advice you accordingly.

If you walked in off the street here at home with a doctor's referral, a 320-slice CT angiogram, alone, would cost about $1,500 for two minutes in the scanner. That is, of course, if there even is one in your state. Presently there are less than ten of these in operation in the entire world.  With Surgery Bargain it’s free.  Then, due to our American system, you will need yet another appointment with your doctor for the results of the scan. At Surgery Bargain you will have all the results the same day.

All this back home here adds up to well over $4,000. During this series of testing and scans here you would be required to make many appointments and go to several different places at different times. Co – payments, insurance company correspondence, if you have any, will wear you out for sure. With Surgery Bargain It’s all free, either for you or your traveling companion.    

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