Description

Cardiology

Introduction

Acıbadem Healthcare Group’s cardiology departments aim to preserve health of heart and
diagnose and treat existing heart diseases. Cardiac rehabilitation, coronary
intensive care units and angiography laboratories support the department’s
efforts.

Diagnosis and Treatment Services
available in Cardiology Department

Following diseases are diagnosed and treated at cardiology departments of Acıbadem
Healthcare Group: 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.

Our cardiology departments provide services also for arrhythmia and cardiac
electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and non-interventional cardiology.

A special database is kept at Acıbadem Healthcare Group’s hospitals and outpatient
clinics for patients to perform quality control analyses for surgeries.

Procedures carried out at Acıbadem Healthcare Group’s cardiology departments can be
summarized as follows:

Non-invasive Procedures

• Disease Risk and Screening
• Cardiac stress test
• 2-D, Doppler, Color Doppler Echocardiography
• Cardiac stress echocardiography
• 24-hour ECG and blood pressure monitoring
• Calcium Scoring with Multi-detector CT
• CT coronary angiography

Invasive Procedures

• Myocardial scintigraphy
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography
• Coronary angioplasty, stent placement, atherectomy
• Heart scintigraphy
• All relevant emergency procedures