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.
At Seton Medical Center, where Experience Countssm, we look forward to providing these services to you and your family with both care and compassion.