You're holding a heart report. Let's read it together.
EF 45%. TMT positive. LDL 160. Words and numbers that arrive without explanation, at the worst possible moment — whether the report is yours, or your father's.
Which report are you holding?
EF 45%?
2D echo report: what every line means
Read it ~20 min
TMT positive?
TMT report: what positive, negative and inconclusive mean
Read it ~22 min
BP 150/95?
Blood pressure numbers and the 24-hour ABPM report
Read it ~15 min
SVT: 2 episodes?
Holter report: what every line on it actually means
Read it ~21 min
Scar on MRI?
Cardiac MRI report: LGE, scar burden and viability
Read it ~17 min
HbA1c still 8.5%?
Your CGM report: time in range, GMI and the AGP graph
Read it ~21 min
If the report you are holding is not here yet, it is being written.
- ECG
- Lipid profile
- Angiography report
- Troponin
- HbA1c & the heart
- Chest X-ray
Why this exists
Almost every day someone unfolds a report in my consulting room and asks the same thing — “Doctor, what does this actually say?”
By then they have usually looked it up already, and found something written for an American patient, or by a hospital selling a package, or by nobody in particular.
A consultation is fifteen minutes. These pages are what I would have said if there were an hour — in plain language, with every claim traceable to a guideline you or your own doctor can check.
Dr Kunal Ajay Patankar · MBBS, MD (Medicine), DrNB (Cardiology)
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