Medical Checkup

Comprehensive Cardiac Examination

For the accurate diagnosis of heart disease, it is essential to evaluate the heart not with a single test, but from multiple perspectives—its function, blood flow, structure, and vessels. Our comprehensive cardiac assessment covers a wide range of examinations, from basic tests such as electrocardiography, echocardiography, exercise stress ECG, and Holter monitoring, to advanced modalities including cardiac ammonia PET scan, coronary CT, MRI, and coronary angiography (cardiac catheterization). This enables an integrated and consistent evaluation of the heart.

Cardiac Checkup
Cardiac Ammonia
PET Scan
Cardiac Catheterization Examination

Cardiac Checkup
(Examination using cardiac ammonia PET scan to check myocardial ischemia)

This screening program utilizes an ammonia PET scan, a minimally invasive examination that places little burden on the body.
Ammonia PET scan is an examination to check myocardial blood flow and its movement. It is effective to provide early detection of diseases such as angina, myocardial infarction, and cardiomyopathy, so that this examination makes it possible to offer early treatment. Please see details here.

Features of cardiac checkup

・It is possible to provide early detection of heart diseases such as angina and myocardial infarction.
・We use radioactive medicine, but the amount of radiation is very small as normal CT scan.
・Scanning images at rest and under stress are possible at once.・Scanning images at rest and under stress are possible at once.
・Due to the numerical data of myocardial blood flow, we can grasp the cardiac condition precisely.
・We can provide accurate diagnosis that has outstanding quantitatively in comparison to conventional examination of nuclear medicine.
・It is minimally invasive compared with coronary angiography.
・It decreases unnecessary revascularization.
・The examination is accompanied by a specialized doctor.

	Items	Contents
1	Consultation	Cardiovascular consultation, interview, daily life guidance
2	Physical	Height, weight, blood pressure, BMI
3	Blood test	Lipid metabolism, Blood glucose
4	Heart failure biomarkers	NT-proBNP
5	Electrocardiogram (ECG)	Regular 12 lead electrocardiogram (at rest)
6	Arteriosclerosis test	ABI (ankle brachial index)/PWV (pulse wave velocity)
7	Ultrasound test	Echocardiography
8	PET-CT scan	Ammonia PET scan (myocardial blood flow test)

●We provide an examination report in Chinese or English (with CD images). Report will be ready in 4 weeks.
●Please ask us about available date and time when you want to make a reservation.

Notes for cardiac checkup

●If you have a medical history of asthma or diabetes, or if you have a pacemaker or defibrillator in your body, please let us know at reservation.
●The fee of cardiac checkup will be different between having PET-CT medical checkup and full medical checkup (Course A) at the same time.

Cardiac checkup procedure

1. Application

・Please check items of the examination, fee and notes.
・Basically one month in advance, please contact us your requested date and gender.

2. Coordination the date of cardiac checkup and payment

・Make a tentative reservation for examination.
・Make payment within a week after an invoice is issued.

3. Fill out and submit documents

・Fill out required parts on a medical questionnaire.
・Please confirm the contents and submit it to KIH.

4. Notes before examination

・Please follow the guidance of cardiac checkup and abstain from food, smoking, and drinking.

5. On the day of examination

6. Receive an examination report

・Receive an examination report (in Chinese or English) and CD-ROM in 4 weeks.

Payment

●Please make payment after an invoice for reservation fee is issued once the examination date confirmed.
●Payment for reservation fee can be made by overseas remittance, bank transfer, or WeChat Pay.
●Reservation fee will be applied for examination fee when you have cardiac checkup.
●If you pay by bank transfer, please make payment together for each booking group. (The remittance fee should be borne by the remitter.)
●If we cannot confirm your payment unless any special unavoidable reasons, your reservation will be cancelled.
●In case of cancellation within 30 days from the date of examination, we take reservation fee as a cancellation fee and we do not refund you.
●Please let us know immediately in case you want to change the schedule.
●You can choose full advance payment or payment on the day of examination for remaining fee.
●If you choose payment on the examination day for remaining fee, cash (Japanese Yen) or credit card is available at the hospital.

Notes for examination

●The medicine which is used for the examination may be affected by caffeine. For accurate examination, please do not take in any foods, drinks, or medicines including caffeine 12 hours before the examination.
●Please do not eat anything on the day of examination.

Cardiac Ammonia PET Scan

What is cardiac ammonia PET scan?

It is an examination to check myocardial blood flow and diagnose diseases and conditions such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, etc. In this examination, radioactive chemical (ammonia) is injected into the body, and it is to see how the chemical gathered in cardiac by using PET-CT.

Features of cardiac ammonia PET scan

1) It takes 2-3 hours including preparation.
2) Although using radiation emitted drug, the amount of radiation is very small as X-ray.
3) Scanning images at rest and under load can be taken at once.
4) We can grasp the cardiac condition precisely by a data which expressed myocardial blood flow numerically.

Cardiac Catheterization Examination

What is cardiac catheterization examination?

Cardiac catheterization examination is an examination to insert a thin hallow tube called catheter from the wrist, elbow or groin to the coronary artery, and a contrast medium is injected into the catheter to visualize the coronary arteries. It is possible to grasp accurately whether there are narrowed parts or clogged parts in the coronary arteries, where they are in the blood vessels, and how narrow they are. The examination is to diagnose angina or myocardial infarction.