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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.

What Is Hypokinesis? Causes, Signs, and Treatment Options Heart & Lungs
Is a Chiari Network in the Heart Dangerous?Heart & Lungs
What Is Global Hypokinesis? Causes, Symptoms, Treatment Heart & Lungs
How Is Ejection Fraction Calculated? Formula and Tests Tests
What Is ATTR-CM? Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment Heart & Lungs
How to Describe Murmurs on a Physical Exam Heart & Lungs
How Rare Is Cardiac Sarcoidosis?Cancer
Is Tricuspid Regurgitation a Systolic Murmur?Heart & Lungs
How to Fix Coupling Contractions (Ventricular Couplets)Heart & Lungs
Is an Inverted P Wave Dangerous?Heart & Lungs
What Is a Nonspecific T Wave Abnormality?Tests
Why Is S2 Louder With Pulmonary Embolism?Heart & Lungs
What Is Pulmonary Atresia? Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Heart & Lungs
The Five WHO Groups of Pulmonary Hypertension Heart & Lungs
Can Anxiety Cause Right Axis Deviation?Heart & Lungs
How Fast Does Moderate Aortic Stenosis Progress?Heart & Lungs
What Is Tricuspid Atresia? Symptoms, Surgery, and Management Heart & Lungs
How Rare Is Achenbach Syndrome?Heart & Lungs
How to Diagnose Diastolic Heart Failure Heart & Lungs
What Is IVSD on an Echocardiogram?Tests
What Is Cardiac Amyloidosis? Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Heart & Lungs
Can You Have Bendopnea Without Heart Failure?Heart & Lungs
What Are the Causes of Secondary Bradycardia?Heart & Lungs
Can Hypoplastic Left Heart Be Misdiagnosed?Heart & Lungs
How Does Cocaine Cause a Myocardial Infarction?Substances
Is a Prolonged P Wave Dangerous?Heart & Lungs
Why Is the INR Goal Higher for a Mechanical Mitral Valve?Heart & Lungs
How Often Should You Trend Troponin Levels?Tests
Why Does a Mitral Valve Prolapse Murmur Increase With Valsalva?Heart & Lungs
Can a Leaky Heart Valve Cause Anemia?Heart & Lungs