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Diagnostic Services
Noninvasive
- Echocardiography
- M-Mode, 2-Dimensional, Doppler, Contrast
- Transthoracic (using a transducer on the chest)
- Transesophageal (using a transducer in the esophagus)
- Intraoperative (to allow the surgeon to evaluate results in the operating room)
- Fetal (to diagnose heart disease in the unborn child)
- Electrocardiography (ECG)
- Holter (ambulatory) recording of ECG continuously for 24, 48, or 72 hours
- Transtelephonic monitoring (outpatient recording of ECG during symptoms)
- Transesophageal recording of ECG (using a recorder in the esophagus)
- Tilt Table Testing (to investigate the cause of fainting)
- Exercise testing (to investigate symptoms, abnormal heart rhythms, exercise capacity)
- Nuclear imaging with and without exercise (to evaluate blood flow to the heart muscle and heart function)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (to see the form of the heart and blood vessels)
Invasive
- Cardiac catheterization (introduction of small tubes into the heart using a vein or artery to visualize the heart chambers and defects and to measure pressure and blood flow)
- Angiocardiography (injecting dye through a catheter into the heart to take pictures)
- Myocardial biopsy (taking a small sample of heart muscle from inside the right ventricle to determine disease)
- Intracardiac Electrophysiology Study (to investigate the origin and characteristics of abnormal heart rhythms)
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Therapeutic Services
Noninvasive
- Drug therapy (for example, for heart failure or abnormal heart rhythms)
- Treatment of the fetus with an abnormal heart rhythm
- Diet and exercise counseling
Invasive
- Interventional catheterization
- Angioplasty and stenting (to open obstructed valves and blood vessels
- Device closure (closing defects in the heart using a device introduced with a catheter)
- Radiofrequency ablation (mapping out and destroying the small area of heart tissue where an abnormal heart rhythm originates, using radiofrequency energy delivered through an electrode catheter)
- Pacemakers
- Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery for the entire spectrum of congenital and acquired heart disease (See Cardiothoracic Surgery on this Website)
- Cardiac Transplantation (See Cardiothoracic Surgery on this Website)
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