Healthy Heart
Ensuring the health of one of our body’s most vital organs, this assessment, which is completed in under an hour, will provide an unparalleled insight of your heart arteries and risk of coronary heart disease. It is ideal for those who have a family history of heart disease, have cardiac risk factors, or anyone concerned about the health of their heart.
Why choose the Healthy Heart Assessment?
This is the gold standard of detection for heart disease identifying narrowing of the heart arteries, the degree of calcification and most importantly, detecting the presence of soft plaque, which is one of the main causes of sudden death in the UK.
Details of what’s included
The price of the Healthy Heart Assessment is £2,500.
Case Study – Coronary Heart Disease
The silent threat.
We recently performed a CT coronary angiogram on a 64-year-old man.
He had none of the classical risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) but admitted to an occasional twinge in his chest when exerting himself.
His CT angiogram images demonstrated an almost total blockage in one of his main coronary arteries.
He was immediately contacted with this result, and we arranged urgent admission at his local NHS Hospital where the next day he underwent an emergency procedure to insert a stent (hollow metal tube) across the blockage.
He was discharged after 2 days and has remained completely well since then.
Undoubtedly, the Echelon Health check-up and subsequent stent insertion averted a critical situation and prevented him from suffering a heart attack.