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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 Pericardiocentesis and When Is It Necessary?Procedures
What Is a Prolonged PR Interval & What Does It Mean?Tests
What Does Nonspecific ST-T Wave Changes Mean?Tests
What Is Nonspecific Intraventricular Conduction Delay?Heart & Lungs
How Do Doctors Test for Swallow Syncope?Tests
Can COVID Cause Left Atrial Enlargement?Heart & Lungs
Why and When Do Doctors Stop Trending Troponin?Tests
What Circulation Findings Are Specific to Pericardial Tamponade?Heart & Lungs
What Is a Split S2 Heart Sound and When Is It Normal?Heart & Lungs
Bisferiens Pulse: Causes and Associated Medical Conditions Heart & Lungs
What Is an Anomalous Right Coronary Artery?Heart & Lungs
What Does Nonspecific ST Abnormality Mean?Heart & Lungs
What Is Fractional Flow Reserve and How Is It Measured?Tests
What Is a Normal Aortic Valve Peak Gradient?Heart & Lungs
Is Achenbach Syndrome Dangerous? What the Science Says Heart & Lungs
What Is Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation?Heart & Lungs
What “Minimal Voltage Criteria for LVH May Be a Normal Variant” Means Tests
How to Assess if an LVAD Is Functioning Procedures
The High Sensitivity Troponin Algorithm for Cardiac Care Tests
The RCRI Risk Score for Preoperative Cardiac Assessment Tests
What Is the ACM Heart Condition? Signs and Management Heart & Lungs
Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment Heart & Lungs
Pulmonary Artery Waveform: Interpreting the Readings Tests
What Is a Normal LVEDP on Cath Reading?Tests
Increased Pulmonary Blood Flow: Causes, Signs, and Treatment Heart & Lungs
Assessing MR Severity With Echocardiography Tests
The Sacubitril Mechanism and How It Works for Heart Failure Drugs
Diastolic Dysfunction Echo Criteria: A Detailed Analysis Tests
The H2FPEF Score: Components and Interpretation Tests
The RV/LV Ratio in Heart Health: What Does It Indicate?Heart & Lungs