Alcohol Septal Ablation

A minimally-invasive treatment performed to relieve symptoms and improve functional status in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condition in which the heart muscle grows abnormally thick.

Aneurysm Evaluation

Treatment of aneurysm, a balloon-like sac in the wall of an artery, vein, or heart caused by a weakening of the wall by injury, disease, or abnormality present at birth.

Arrhythmia Event Monitoring

Uses various monitoring devices to evaluate and monitor abnormal heart rhythms.

Biventricular Pacing

Biventricular pacing works like a pacemaker. It synchronizes several actions of the heart to coordinate contractions of the left and right ventricles, reduce the amount of blood flow that leaks through the mitral valve, and decrease the motion of the septal wall that separates the chambers of the heart.

Cardiac Rehabilitation

If you have had a heart attack, heart surgery or other cardiac medical procedure, Cardiac Rehabilitation can help you get back on track. The goal is to help you live more fully, without constantly fearing the serious effects of heart disease.

Cholesterol Testing

Cholesterol screening is performed by a blood test. Persons with high cholesterol measurements from a blood sample tend to have a higher risk for coronary heart disease than those with cholesterol in the normal range. Studies have demonstrated that persons with high cholesterol can reduce their risk for heart disease by lowering their cholesterol. It is important to understand, however, that people can still have heart disease even with cholesterol levels in the normal range.

Directional Coronary Atherectomy

Directional Coronary Atherectomy is a non-surgical technique that is used to widen and open the narrowing in the coronary artery.

Usually, the decision to proceed with DCA is made directly after a coronary angiogram while a patient is the catheterization lab. DCA can be preferable to other procedures, such as balloon angioplasty. Some of the factors that determine angioplasty versus atherectomy are the location and shape of the blockage, the size of the artery, and whether clots are present in the artery.

Echocardiogram (Echo)

An echocardiogram (also known as an Echo) is a noninvasive (the skin is not pierced) procedure used to assess the heart's function and structures. During the procedure, a transducer (like a microphone) sends out ultrasonic sound waves at a frequency too high to be heard. When the transducer is placed on the chest at certain locations and angles, the ultrasonic sound waves move through the skin and other body tissues to the heart tissues, where the waves echo off of the heart structures. The transducer picks up the reflected waves and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the echoes into an image of the heart walls and valves.

Electrophysiology Studies (EP Studies)

An electrophysiology study (EP study) is a cardiac catheterization to study electrical currents in patients who have arrhythmias.

Enhanced External Counterpulsation

Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is a noninvasive procedure that can reduce the symptoms of angina pectoris by increasing coronary blood flow in ischemic areas of the heart.

Exercise Therapy

Individual consultations with an exercise physiologist. Patients will be assisted with developing or enhancing a safe, effective exercise program.

Heart Failure Program

A team of skilled nurse practitioners, nurse case managers, social workers, dietitians and occupational therapists develop individualized plans for patients with advanced heart failure. Patients receive a detailed evaluation and are monitored according to their individual needs.

Holter Monitoring

The Holter monitor is a portable device for continuously monitoring the electrical activity of the heart for 24 hours or more. Its extended recording period is sometimes useful for observing occasional cardiac arrhythmias that would be difficult to identify in a shorter period of time.

Implantable Defibrillator Checks

Implantable defibrillators help patients who suffer from irregular heart rhythms. They are small monitors placed under the skin to continuously monitor the heart's rhythm. When the device detects ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, it shocks the heart to restore the normal rhythm.

Intracoronary Stent Placement

After a blocked artery is opened using a tiny balloon (angioplasty), a small wire-mesh tube is placed in the artery to keep it open.

Intravascular Ultrasound

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), or intravascular echocardiography, is a combination of echocardiography (ultrasound) and a procedure called cardiac catheterization. IVUS uses sound waves to produce an image of the coronary arteries and to see their condition. The sound waves travel through a tube called a catheter. The catheter is threaded through an artery and into your heart. This test lets doctors look inside your blood vessels.

Pacemaker Assessment and Reprogramming

Pacemakers are tiny devices that keep the heart beating properly. They must be periodically assessed and reprogrammed to ensure proper function.

Peripheral Studies

Preventive Care

Medical and/or dental services aimed at early detection and intervention.

Pulse Volume Recording (PVR)

Pulse volume recording (PVR) is part of a simple, painless, noninvasive test that measures blood flow within blood vessels (arteries) in the legs or arms. The measurements obtained from PVRs are used in combination with other tests to help locate blockages in the arteries.

Rotoblator

A therapeutic procedure in which a long hollow tube (catheter) is inserted into the femoral artery in the patient's groin, and threaded through the blood vessels into the heart. A small diamond-tipped burr is then advanced on the catheter to the site of the blockage in the coronary artery. As the burr spins through the artery, the plaque is pulverized. This procedure is particularly useful for hardened, calcified blockages.

Stress Testing

Stress testing (usually with ECG; also called treadmill or exercise ECG) is a test that is given while a patient walks on a treadmill or pedals a stationary bike to monitor the heart during exercise. Breathing and blood pressure rates are also monitored. A stress test may be used to detect coronary artery disease, and/or to determine safe levels of exercise following a heart attack or heart surgery.

Tilt Table Testing

A tilt table procedure is a diagnostic procedure that may be used to evaluate a person who has symptoms of syncope (fainting). When a person has a complaint of syncope, the physician will carefully evaluate the person's past medical history and perform a physical examination. If basic components of the examination or history do not reveal a potential cause for the syncope, and the person has no history of heart disease, then further diagnostic procedures will be scheduled.

Visceral Vascular Studies