The Anticoagulation Clinic at the Mid-Cities Cardiac Care Center is a specialty clinic led by a medical assistant that focuses on the management of patients taking warfarin by “point-of-care” testing.
- Learn moreCardioversion is used to reset your heart's rhythm to its normal pattern. It can be used to treat heart rhythm problems like atrial fibrillation or supraventricular tachycardia.
- Learn moreCardiac catheterization is a test your doctor uses to view images of the heart and the coronary arteries. These arteries feed blood, oxygen, and nutrients to your heart.
- Learn morePercutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the name for procedures to open a blocked or narrow blood vessel that gives oxygen to the heart (coronary artery).
- Learn moreThe Device Clinic at the Mid-Cities Cardiac Care Center is a specialty clinic following patients with pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Learn moreAn exercise electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that checks for changes in your heart while you exercise.
>- Learn moreAn echocardiogram, also called an "echo," is an imaging test that creates pictures of your heart as it beats.
- Learn moreAn electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG translates the heart's electrical activity into line tracings on paper.
- Learn moreA cardiac perfusion scan measures the amount of blood in your heart muscle at rest and after your heart has been made to work hard.
- Learn moreAn electrophysiology study, also called an EPS, is a test to see if there is a problem with your heartbeat (heart rhythm) and to find out how to fix it.
- Learn moreImplantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement is surgery to put an ICD in your chest. An ICD is a small, battery-powered device that fixes life-threatening changes in your heartbeat.
- Learn moreA Holter monitor is a small machine that you wear to record the electrical activity of your heart while you do your usual activities.
- Learn moreA cardiac event recorder is a battery-powered portable device that you control to tape-record your heart’s electrical activity (ECG) when you have symptoms.
- Learn moreA small battery-operated device that helps the heart beat in a regular rhythm. There are two parts: a generator and wires (leads).
>- Learn moreIf you often feel faint or lightheaded, your doctor may use a tilt-table test to find out why. During the test, you lie on a table that is slowly tilted upward.
- Learn moreAngioplasty is a procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels that supply blood to your legs. Fatty deposits can build up inside the arteries and block blood flow.
- Learn moreA peripheral angiogram is a test that uses X-rays and dye to help your doctor find narrowed or blocked areas in one or more of the arteries that supply blood to your legs.
- Learn moreAn echocardiogram (also called an echo) uses sound waves to make an image of your heart. A device called a transducer is moved across your chest.
- Learn moreCarotid ultrasound is a safe, painless procedure that uses sound waves to examine the blood flow through the carotid arteries.
- Learn moreThis is an arterial study to check the circulation in your legs. Blood pressures are taken in the legs at several different sites.
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