PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
for Heart Month

     Ever want to explore a nuclear cardiology lab? Or wonder how
an electrocardiogram works? Find out by attending the University
of Virginia Heart Center open house on Sunday, February 12 from 2
to 4 p.m.
     Tours of the Heart Center's labs will be given by doctors
and lab technicians who will explain how heart disease is
diagnosed. The labs include:
     Exercise Stress Test Laboratory: Uses bicycle and treadmill
exercise to find heart disease and test the heart and lung
system.
     Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory: Uses special computers to
produce 3-D images of the heart to locate damaged areas of
muscle.
     Echocardiography Laboratory: Uses ultrasound and sonograms
to produce images of blood flow and muscle contraction in the
heart.
     Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: A small tube passed
through blood vessels to the heart helps produce images of valves
and arteries in the heart.
     Electrocardiography Laboratory: Special tape recorders are
used to analyze the rhythms of heartbeats to find abnormalities.
     If you are interested in covering any portion of the open
house, please contact Marguerite Beck at 924-5679.
                                
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                                          February 1, 1995