Diagnosis and Treatment Services available in Cardiology Department
Following diseases are diagnosed and treated at cardiology departments: heart attack, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart rhythm and conduction disorders, heart valve diseases, peripheral artery diseases, aortic diseases, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and congenital heart diseases.
Best-in-class cardiology departments in VitaNova’s portfolio also provides services for arrhythmia and cardiac electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, and non-interventional cardiology.
Echocardiography
Echocardiography is a completely safe and non-interventional examination assessing heart anatomically and functionally. After echocardiography, information is acquired in terms of the state of pumping function of heart, nature of cardiac valves and their functional sate and structural abnormalities of heart. It is important in detecting the presence and severity of leakages and tightening in cardiac valves in diagnosis of congenital heart disorders and myocardium diseases.
Holter
It is the record of heart beats by a device carried for 24-48 hours and then the conversion of these to EKG traces by a computer program. Therefore, abnormal rhythms, extra beats as well as changes indicative of ischemia in EKG can be detected. Besides it could be used in order to trace the impact of the treatment.
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Follow-up
It requires a portable sphygmomanometer which records tension measures once every 15 or 30 minutes to remain upon the patient for a period of 24 hours. It is plugged in for patients diagnosed with hypotension and hypertension, and seldom for assessing the response to the treatment.
Effort Tests – Treadmill
In the Cardiology Department, tread mill tests are practiced as effort tests. Tread mill, publicly known as running mill, is based on walking of a patient in accordance with certain protocols while he/she is plugged to a 12-derivative EKG device and running as the mill speed is regularly increased. In case of a positive result, the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease is ensured along with a further examination such as cardiac catheterization.
Hypertension
Blood pressure is the power that the blood in your veins, due to the energy that your heart generated, against the vein periphery. The situation that is called hypertension is that these values measured by the physician are above 140/90 mmHg at least in two separate days. Approximately one fifth of every adult is hypertensive. The frequency even increases in those who are overweight. Hypertension is essential a hereditary disease. There is no complaint in the initial phase of hypertension. That is why hypertension is called "silent murderer." However, if your blood pressure level is too high you will have the complaints of headaches, over-sweating, exhaustion, confusion, visual impairment and restlessness.
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