Heart conditions, treatments and investigations
We investigate and treat the three broad types of heart disease and abnormalities
These are:
- Electrical – palpitations, including both fast and slow heart rates
- Structural – heart failure, leaking valves, heart murmurs or holes in the heart (ASD)
- Plumbing (coronary) – blockages in the arteries and vessels; chest pains, angina or shortness of breath, limiting oxygen flow
We also treat a range of other conditions including:
- syncope (fainting, blackouts or dizziness)
- high cholesterol
- high blood pressure.
We provide the spectrum of non-invasive investigations and services, as well as key-hole cardiac surgical procedures. These include:
- Angioplasty (balloon and stenting to widen narrow arteries)
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Closure of holes in the heart
- Computer tomography (CT) coronary angiogram
- Coronary angiography
- Echocardiography – 2D and 3D transthoracic and transoesophageal
- Electrocardiograms (ECG), 24 hour Holter monitors, exercise treadmill testing
- Electrophysiology procedures, including ablations for supraventricular (SVT) and ventricular tachycardia (VT)
- Pacing, including implantation of simple and complex pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillations
- Investigation and management of pre-syncope (fainting or blackouts), syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) including tilt table testing
- TAVI (minimally invasive aortic valve replacement)