Thyroid Screening
Most thyroid abnormalities can be detected by checking your body’s thyroid stimulating hormone level (TSH) through a thyroid screening. In your body, the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) is synthesized and secreted by your pituitary gland. You can view the TSH like a messenger sent to knock on the door of the thyroid. Its purpose is to regulate your thyroid gland, to tell it to produce more, or to tell it to produce less. In a healthy individual, its message is based on whet
Preventive Ultrasound Screenings Save Lives
What would your doctor say if you could see the inside of your internal organs and detect for possible abnormalities such as masses, nodules, cysts, enlargements, blockages in the heart, neck arteries, kidneys, liver, pancreas, aorta, uterus, ovaries, prostate, thyroid, breasts and spleen? At Trinity Diagnostics we are able to see such abnormalities immediately and have a custom report with images ready for you within a couple of days and in some cases that very same day. Th
Student Athlete Screening
According to a 2008 study in the Heart Rhythm Journal less than 1 in 10 U.S. student-athletes who suffer sudden cardiac arrest survive. Sudden cardiac arrest is a condition in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. When this happens, blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs. It usually causes death if it’s not treated within minutes. As a baby develops during pregnancy, there are normally several openings in the wall dividing the upper chamber