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Department of Medicine -
Section of Cardiology


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Special services include: Diagnostic procedures include:
  • adult and pediatric cardiology
  • physical fitness evaluation
  • non-invasive and invasive studies;
    interventional procedures
  • radioisotope examination of the heart
  • arrhythmia mapping
  • tranesophageal echo (TEE)
  • electrophysiological studies (EPS)
  • signal-averaging EGG
  • tilt table
  • cardiac MRI

The cardiac laboratories, including catheterization, cardiac graphics (echocardiogram), and electrocardiogram (ECG), provide diagnostic tests and therapeutic procedures for children and adults.

Therapeutic procedures, including simple and complex balloon angioplasties, atherectomy, laser, and RF ablation, also are available. The ECG Lab provides a full range of electrocardiograms, including ECG thallium and persantin thallium stress tests.