What tests should I do for heart pain?

The heart is one of the most powerful organs in the human body because it can pump out strong force to push blood to all parts of the body, laying a solid foundation for people's various circulatory systems. The heart is under great pressure and is prone to symptoms of overload disease. For example, many people have experienced symptoms of heart pain. Long-term heart pain must be checked and treated promptly. Let’s take a look at what tests should be done if you have heart pain?

1. Dynamic electrocardiogram (Holter) is also called long-term electrocardiogram. It can provide information about the subject's dynamic ECG activity throughout the day. It effectively supplements the deficiencies of conventional electrocardiograms. It can not only obtain 24 hours or even 48 hours of continuous electrocardiogram data, but also, combined with the patient's activity diary, can clarify the relationship between the patient's symptoms, activity status, medication, etc. and electrocardiogram changes.

2. Electrocardiogram exercise stress test Electrocardiogram exercise stress test. It is a diagnostic method used to detect early coronary heart disease. Although there is a certain proportion of false negatives and false positives compared with the results of coronary angiography, it is still recognized as an important clinical examination method due to its convenience, non-invasiveness and safety. Among them, the treadmill exercise test is the most widely used exercise load test method.

3. Echocardiography is commonly known as cardiac B-ultrasound. Echocardiography uses radar scanning technology and the characteristics of sound wave reflection to display on a fluorescent screen the reflections that occur when ultrasound waves pass through the various layers of the heart, forming a grayscale image. This is used to observe the morphological structure and pulsation state of the heart and large blood vessels, understand the laws of atrioventricular contraction, relaxation, and valve closing and opening activities, and provide clinically valuable reference material. Echocardiography has diagnostic value for the following heart diseases: ① valvular heart disease (mitral stenosis and/or regurgitation, mitral valve prolapse; tricuspid and aortic valve stenosis and/or regurgitation) ② myocardial disease (myocardial infarction, especially the discovery of ventricular aneurysm; idiopathic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy with dilation of the heart chamber as the main manifestation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with thickening of the heart wall as the main manifestation) ③ congenital heart disease (atrioventricular septal defect, transposition of great vessels and blood shunt can be observed) ④ coronary heart disease ⑤ hypertensive heart disease ⑥ others: pericardial thickening and effusion, tumors in and around the heart, such as intracardiac myxoma, myocardial tumors, and tumors around the heart (mediastinum).