Diagnostic Services & Treatment Options

As a result of our worldwide reputation for excellence, patients from more than 45 countries have traveled to Seton Medical Center to benefit from our full range of high-quality diagnostic services.

Diagnostic Services include:

• Blood tests
• Resting and treadmill stress EKG
• Resting and stress echocardiography – echocardiography is one of the most frequently used techniques for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. Seton Medical Center offers this service through our echocardiography laboratory
• Nuclear (Thallium) studies
• MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
• Ultrafast CT (computerized tomography)
• PET Scanning (positron emission tomography)
• Cardiac catheterization, via the femoral (groin), brachial (arm) and radial (wrist) approach

Treatment Options include:

• Patient Education to promote lifestyle changes, include: smoking cessation, exercise, diet and weight management
• Latest medications
• Pacemaker implantation to address life-threatening arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats)
• Automatic defibrillators
• Healthy Heart Program
• Outpatient Congestive Heart Failure Program
  • State-of-the-art catheterization laboratory procedures, including:
  • Balloon angioplasty, via the femoral (groin) access, brachial (arm) access, and radial (wrist) access
  • Rotational atherectomy (Rotablator)
  • Stents/drug coated stents
  • Intracoronary radiation (brachytherapy)
  • Peripheral laser and ultrasound therapies
• Cardiac surgeries, including:
  • Coronary artery bypass and cardiac valve surgeries, incorporating the latest surgical technologies
  • Minimally invasive surgery, procedures that utilize smaller incisions for bypass and valve surgeries
  • Beating heart surgery, eliminates the need for a heart-lung machine in certain bypass operations
  • Coronary endarterectomies, to treat advanced coronary artery disease in vessels that cannot be bypassed
  • Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) surgery
  • Other vascular surgeries available at Seton Medical Center include:
    • Peripheral angioplasty to address vascular problems including:
      Leg pain (arteries in the legs)
      Stroke prevention (carotid arteries)
      Kidney problems (renal arteries)
  • A comprehensive cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program to help patients return safely to an optimal level of activity after surgery and/or a major cardiac event.