The heart care center of lazarus hospitals provide health care services of the highest possible quality to patients to locally, nationally and internationally through a fully integrated, comprehensive healthcare delivery system. Our ultimate goal is to improve the human condition through understanding, preventing, controlling and treating the diseases.

Patients in the cardiac program receive assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation according to their individual needs.

Cardiopulmonary Department
The Cardiopulmonary Department offers a variety of inpatient and outpatient services. Learn more about coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and deep vein thrombosis.

Non-Invasive Procedures:
Echocardiography:

 Transthoracic 2D echocardiograms
 Transesophageal echocardiograms
 Exercise testing:
 Treadmill exercise testing
 Pharmacologic (adenosine dobutamine) nuclear perfusion scans
 Exercise nuclear perfusion scans (thallium, technicium)
 Exercise echocardiograms
 Dobutamine echocardiograms
 Exercise nuclear scans

Vascular laboratory:
Venous, arterial and carotid studies

Other cardiac nuclear studies: Nuclear ventriculograms (MUGA), Nuclear viability studies (thallium)

Cardiac Catheterization
In cardiac catheterization radiological equipment is used to diagnose heart disease. Interventional tools including balloons and stents are fed through a catheter into the coronary arteries in an effort to reduce stenosis and improve blood flow.

Diagnostics:

     Cardiac hemodynamic measurement
     Coronary angiography
     Endomyocardial biopsy
     Interventional services:
     Balloon angioplasty
     Atherectomy
     Coronary stenting
     Intracoronary thrombolysis
     Primary angioplasty for acute heart attack patients
     Brachytherapy

Cardiac Arrhythmia Service
The Arrhythmia Service provides diagnostic and treatment options for patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances.

Diagnostics:

     Event monitor recording
     24- to 48-hour ambulatory Holter ECG monitoring
     Signal average electrocardiograms
     Pacemaker implantation
     Non-thoracotomy placement of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator devices
     Anti-arrhythmic drug therapy