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Expertise in Advanced Heart Imaging

At UVA Health, we're using imaging technology to better diagnose and treat heart and vascular conditions. Find out more at: https://uvahealth.com/services/heart-... Transcript My name is Chad Hoyt. I'm a clinical cardiologist here at UVA Health, and I'm also the Executive Director of Clinical Growth and Outreach. At UVA Health, we have an incredible imaging department, probably world-renowned, so we offer CTA of the coronary arteries. That's a CAT scan procedure. We offer MRI of the heart. We offer PET scanning of the heart and all of the different ultrasound imaging modalities. The tremendous benefit to patients for advanced imaging is that we can detect disease at a much earlier stage and we can detect it noninvasively, so there's less risk to the patient. The newer imaging procedures have less radiation than some of the older machines. Some have asked, why do we call it advanced imaging? I would say that it's primarily because these machines are very, very technologically sophisticated, they're expensive, and so it involves a lot of specialized physician expertise, fellowship expertise in order to read them, so it's not a run-of-the-mill EKG or chest x-ray. They take time to do and they're at a significant expense, but they give us amazing information and detail. Patients often ask if they can refer themselves for an advanced imaging test, and the answer to that is that you really need a referral from a physician because some of the imaging procedures involve some radiation exposure and you need to be informed and we need to make sure that you have a good indication for the test. I would really encourage patients to come to UVA Health for heart imaging because we have a world-renowned faculty, we have an incredible imaging research department, we have great imaging technology and equipment, and I think it's the best in Virginia, some of the best in the East Coast.