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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.

Does Lyme Carditis Show Up on an ECG?
How to Diagnose Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM)
What Does Borderline T Abnormalities Anterior Leads Mean?
How Often Is Septal Infarct Misdiagnosed?
What Is a Reversible Defect on a Stress Test?
What Is a Prolonged PR Interval & What Does It Mean?
What Does Nonspecific ST-T Wave Changes Mean?
How Do Doctors Test for Swallow Syncope?
Why and When Do Doctors Stop Trending Troponin?
What Is Fractional Flow Reserve and How Is It Measured?
What “Minimal Voltage Criteria for LVH May Be a Normal Variant” Means
The High Sensitivity Troponin Algorithm for Cardiac Care
The RCRI Risk Score for Preoperative Cardiac Assessment
Pulmonary Artery Waveform: Interpreting the Readings
What Is a Normal LVEDP on Cath Reading?
Assessing MR Severity With Echocardiography
Diastolic Dysfunction Echo Criteria: A Detailed Analysis
The H2FPEF Score: Components and Interpretation
What Is Pressure Half Time in Aortic Regurgitation?
The Sokolow Lyon Index: An Indicator for Heart Health
What Is a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava on an Echo?
ECG Patterns That Indicate Sudden Cardiac Death Risk
What Does a Nonspecific ST Abnormality Mean?
What Do BNP Levels Indicate About Mortality?
What Is a MACE Score and How Is It Used?
Global Longitudinal Strain: Key Insights and Clinical Relevance
What Is Ventricular Morphology Analysis?