Heart conditions and treatments

We investigate and treat the four broad types of heart disease and abnormalities 

These are: 

• electrical – palpitations, including both fast and slow heart rates 
• structural – leaking or narrowed valves, heart murmurs or holes in the heart (ASD/PFO) 
• coronary – blockages in the arteries and vessels; chest pains, angina or shortness of breath
• heart failure - impaired heart function including inherited and acquired causes

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 including:

Investigations:

• echocardiography - 2D and 3D transthoracic and transoesophageal 
• cardiac imaging including CT angiography, nuclear perfusion, PET and cardiac MRI

Non-invasive cardiac investigations:

• ECG, exercise testing, Holter monitoring, tilt testing
• cardiac catheter lab-based investigations including coronary angiography, intravascular imaging and coronary and cardiac physiology
• invasive electrophysiological testing
• investigation and management of pre-syncope (fainting or blackouts), syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) including tilt table testing 

Procedures:

• angioplasty (balloon and stenting to widen narrow arteries) including complex (CHIP) and chronic total occlusion (CTO) procedures with a full range of calcium modification tools (rotablation, orbital atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy)
• closure of holes in the heart - ASD and PFO closures
• electrophysiology procedures, including ablations for supraventricular (SVT), atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia (VT) 
• pacing, including implantation of simple and complex pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators
• TAVI (minimally invasive aortic valve replacement) 
• mitral and tricuspid TEER (percutaneous edge to edge repair of leaking mitral and tricuspid valves)
• percutaneous balloon mitral commisurotomy (for mitral stenosis)
• paravalvular leak closure