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Wellington Hospital
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clementine Churchill BMI (Harrow)
Lindo Wing, St Mary's Hospital

Patient testimonials

First, I can’t thank you enough for all your time, interest and care on Thursday.

Secondly, the one stop ‘plumb and sparks’ shop is seriously impressive, staffed by great, caring and efficient people who are fun. In about an hour to do an echo, treadmill test and take 49 blood samples etc. must be close to a W.R....

Seriously, from the patients point of view you are offering full diagnostics almost in the ‘golden hour’ whereas with most other approaches it takes more like a month! The expeditious approach apart from removing patients uncertainty which often weighs heavily means if necessary you are in to treatment almost immediately....

Patients will definitely feel that they and their quality of lfe is being put first.

Mr Y. (2010) Suffolk.

CT coronary angiography

A CT scan is performed with you going into a metal tube. You have to lie still to allow the pictures to be taken. A drug may need to be given to slow your heart rate down. The test involves the use of X-rays and X-ray dye, which is injected via a needle in the back of your hand. There has been great progress in taking pictures of the heart and brain blood vessels using 64-slice CT scanners. The radiation dose of the CT scan is equivalent or larger than for the coronary angiogram. In addition, X-ray contrast dye still has to be used. However, it is less invasive than the angiogram and so will be the diagnostic tool of choice in some cases. You cannot do coronary angioplasty (PCI) guided by CT angiography alone.

CT coronary angiography

3D-reconstruction of CT coronary angiogram