SERVICES
Consultative Cardiology: A thoughtful assessment of your heart problem.
Preventative Cardiology: Discussion concerning your risk factors and lifestyle to prevent cardiovascular disease.
Cardiac Catheterization: An x-ray procedure with dye, performed at Durham Regional Hospital.
Electrophysiology: The invasive study of the electricity of the heart. Treatment can include the placement of a pacemaker, defibrillator, or ablation of an abnormal rhythm.
Interventional Cardiology: Balloon angioplasty/stent placement, also performed at Durham Regional Hospital.
TESTING
Exercise Stress Test: walking on a treadmill or riding a bicycle while attached to an EKG in order to screen for coronary artery disease
Echocardiography: the use of sound waves to take a picture of your heart, without radiation
Stress Echo: a stress test coupled with an echo to image your heart during exercise
Transesophageal Echo: Swallowing a probe to look at your heart from “the inside out” for better definition of the structures
Nuclear Studies : a noninvasive use of a radioactive tracer to track blood flow in your heart
Stress Cardiolite : an exercise treadmill coupled with a scan
Adenosine Cardiolite: a “drug stress test” which does not require walking, but an infusion of a medication
Pacemaker Clinic: to monitor devices which have been implanted
Coumadin Clinic : blood testing to monitor patients on the blood thinner coumadin
Holter Monitoring : a 24 hour recording of the heartbeat which is then analyzed
Event Monitoring : a 30 recording of the heartbeat
SCHEDULING AN APPOINTMENT
We serve as consultants in cardiovascular medicine to the primary care or referring physicians.
All visits are by appointment only. Our office is open from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Thursday and 8:30 am to 4:00 pm on Friday. Please notify us as soon as possible if you are unable to keep your appointment. A minimum of 24 hours is requested.
