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Sandra Tierney

Sandra Tierney, MD, is a cardiologist with a community medical group in Newport, Rhode Island. She evaluates patients and reviews diagnostic echocardiograms and cardiac stress tests. Tierney practiced general internal medicine before completing her cardiology fellowship, and she focuses on helping individuals understand their clinical imaging reports and diagnostic results.

What Does Borderline T Abnormalities Mean?
What Does a Mild Left Atrial Volume Index Mean?
What Is Elevated LVEDP and What Does It Mean?
Diastolic Dysfunction Echo: Interpreting Your Results
What Is a Non-Specific T Wave Abnormality?
What Is High Lateral Repolarization Disturbance?
Procainamide Challenge: Procedure, Risks, and Results
What Is an Apical Perfusion Defect on a Heart Scan?
Non-Specific ST-T Wave Changes: Is It Normal?
Diagnosing an Aortic Dissection With an Echo
What a Calcium Score of 1000 Means for Your Heart
What Are the Duke Criteria for Infective Endocarditis?
What Is a Troponin Leak and What Are the Causes?
What Does a Questionable Change in QRS Axis Mean?
What Does a Calcium Score of 600 Mean?
What Is Transient Ischemic Dilation?
What Does Cannot Rule Out Anterior Infarct Age Undetermined Mean?
What Does a Low Voltage QRS Finding on an EKG Mean?
What Is Myocardial Perfusion and How Is It Tested?
Is a Reversible Perfusion Defect Life-Threatening?
What Does Inferior Infarct Age Undetermined Mean?
Is Low Voltage in Precordial Leads Dangerous?
How Is Ejection Fraction Calculated? Formula and Tests
What Is a Nonspecific T Wave Abnormality?
What Is IVSD on an Echocardiogram?
How Often Should You Trend Troponin Levels?
What Is a Longitudinal Strain Echo for Heart Function?
How to Diagnose Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Which Cardiac Stress Test Should You Order?
How to Auscultate for a Carotid Bruit