ABC’s Health Report – An overdiagnosis of ‘spongy heart’?

When a doctor performs an echocardiogram, about one per cent of people will be found to have a 'spongy heart' — typically benign, but sometimes associated with other heart problems. When a more sensitive MRI test is used, the number of people with spongy heart shoots as as high as 40 per cent.

And diagnosis with the condition can lead to more tests, treatment, stress and worry.

That’s despite the fact most adults who have it are considered otherwise healthy.

So are we over-diagnosing the condition?

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/an-overdiagnosis-of-spongy-heart/11173076#new_tab