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.

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.  Therefore, all patients must have a primary care physician for their routine medical care. 

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.