The Cardiology department has state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities with the latest echocardiography machines, treadmills, 24 hour cardiac rhythm and blood pressure monitoring, TILT table test for diagnosis of variety of cardiac conditions, in addition to the stat of the art invasive interventional catheter lab suite
Noninvasive cardiology department:
- Trans-thorathic Echocardiography and trans-esophageal echocardiography
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
- 24 h heart rhythm monitoring
- Tilt testing for diagnosis of syncope
- Advanced state of the art CT cardiac and coronary arteries
- Advanced cardiac MRI for diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and congenital cardiac abnormalities
- Echocardiography for congenital heart disease
Department of invasive and interventional cardiology:
In addition, the department of invasive and interventional cardiology has state of the art catheter lab suite which is fully equipped with modern technology to enable doctors to diagnose and treat simple and very complex cardiac conditions.
Servicies include:
- Coronary angiography from radial and femoral approach
- Coronary angioplasty and stenting from radial and femoral approach
- Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) with latest and most modern Volcano machine
- Measurement of coronary flow with pressure wire (FFR)
- Treatment of acute heart attacks and emergency percutaneous coronary intervention
- Rotablation Atherectomy for calcified coronary arteries
- Coil implantation for intra-cardiac shunts and fistulas
- Invasive treatment of Valvular heart disease
- Implantation of cardiac pacemaker
- Implantation of intra cardiac defibrillators (ICD)
- Implantation of Bi-ventricular pacemaker (CRT)
- Peripheral diagnostic angiography
- Peripheral angioplasty and stenting
- Implantation of IVC filter
- Endovascular removal of IVC filter by snaring
