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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 Pulsus Paradoxus and What Causes It?Heart & Lungs
Why Does a Heart Attack Radiate Pain in the Left Shoulder and Arm?Heart & Lungs
Are Beta-Blockers Contraindicated in Left Bundle Branch Block?Drugs
What Does It Mean If the Right Atrium Is Severely Dilated?Heart & Lungs
Why Does Handgrip Decrease Aortic Stenosis Murmur?Heart & Lungs
How Does Heart Failure Cause Lactic Acidosis?Heart & Lungs
What Is Overriding Aorta? Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Heart & Lungs
What Does Left Anterior Fascicular Block Mean?Heart & Lungs
How to Measure LVOT Diameter and Why It’s Important Heart & Lungs
How to Treat Right Atrial Enlargement Heart & Lungs
What Is Grade 3 Diastolic Dysfunction?Heart & Lungs
Is Roemheld Syndrome Dangerous? Symptoms and Causes Gut & Kidney
Do Patients on DAPT Need DVT Prophylaxis?Drugs
Can Exercise Cause Plaque to Rupture?Heart & Lungs
Can Supraventricular Tachycardia Cause Elevated Troponin?Heart & Lungs
What Does Low Cardiac Index Mean? Causes and Symptoms Heart & Lungs
What Does Borderline T Abnormalities Anterior Leads Mean?Tests
How Often Is Septal Infarct Misdiagnosed?Tests
Can Cancer Cause Elevated Troponin?Cancer
What Medications Can Cause Right Bundle Branch Block?Drugs
Significance of the Difference in Ventricular Wall Thickness Heart & Lungs
What Is a Reversible Defect on a Stress Test?Tests
What Is Wellens Syndrome? The Silent Heart Attack Warning Heart & Lungs
Is Intraventricular Conduction Delay Normal?Heart & Lungs
What Is Grade II Diastolic Dysfunction?Heart & Lungs
When Is S3 Heart Sound Heard? Normal vs. Abnormal Causes Heart & Lungs
What Is Septal Infarct Age Undetermined?Heart & Lungs
Can You Have Heart Failure With a Normal Echocardiogram?Heart & Lungs
What Is the S3 Heart Sound and What Does It Indicate?Heart & Lungs
Can Poor R Wave Progression Be Reversed?Heart & Lungs