Description

Cardiology – Adult Heart Diseases

Cardiology: yeditepe’s ‘heart team’

The physicians at Yeditepe University Hospital’s
Cardiology Department serve international patients using the most advanced
methods in their specialty areas as a “Heart Team” dedicated to
providing international patients with the most advanced cardiologic diagnostic
and treatment techniques. Yeditepe’s Cardiology Department undergoes a process
of continuous reviewing and updating of our treatment, diagnostic and
interventional methods. Our most critical duty is to follow innovations and to
offer our international patients state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment.

Diseases Diagnosed and Treated at our Cardiology Center

Coronary artery disease (hardening of the arteries)

Myocardial infarction (heart attack)

Rhythm and conduction disturbances (arrhythmias)

Heart valve diseases

Aortic Vascular Diseases

Peripheral vascular disease (leg artery disease)

Heart failure

Congenital heart disease

Hypertension

High Cholesterol

Technical and Technological Capacities Include

Arrhythmia and electrophysiology laboratory

Coronary angiography and cardiac catheterization laboratory

Echocardiography Laboratory

Stress Test ECG (treadmill) exercise laboratory

Holter rhythm and blood pressure

Coronary computed tomography

Cardiac MRI

Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (Thallium test) laboratory    

Non-invasive procedures

Heart disease risk identification and check-ups (advanced
cardiac screening program – ‘SHAPE’)

2- and 4- dimensional echocardiography and Color Doppler

Stress echocardiography

Stress Test ECG exercise testing

Rhythm Holter (24-48 hour rhythm monitoring)

Blood Pressure Holter (24-hour blood pressure monitoring)

Tilt table test (for differential diagnosis of patients
with vasovagal syncope-fainting)

Coronary CT (computed tomography three-dimensional imaging of coronary arteries)

Coronary calcium scoring

Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (Thallium test)

Interventional procedures

Transesophageal echocardiography

Coronary angiography and cardiac catheterization

Balloon angioplasty and stent applications (Medicated stents and biodegradable stents)

Electro-physiologic examination (for the diagnosis of rhythm and conduction disorders)

Ablation and pacemaker application (for the treatment of rhythm and conduction disorders)

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (for the treatment of heart failure)

Renal denervation (non-medical treatment of resistant hypertension)

Non-surgical aortic valve replacement or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)

Heart disease is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world – and the most deadly. Therefore, the
most effective preventive measure that you can take to avoid future heart
disease is to make an appointment with one of our specialist cardiologists to
determine your risk factors, and to arrange regular appointments to monitor
your cardiac function and condition. This risk calculation uses modern
diagnostic methods and does not take long. You should see a cardiologist in the
event that any one or more of the following factors apply to you:

A family (mother, father, sibling, or child) history of heart disease

Hypertension

Diabetes

High Cholesterol levels

Smoking

Obesity

Yeditepe University Hospital uses the most advanced equipment and methods for cardiac screening.
Your cardiac functions are monitored using state-of-the-art echocardiography
techniques that facilitate 4-dimensional assessment of your heart and heart
valves. 3D images are also obtained using coronary CT angiography.

Yeditepe’s Electrophysiology Laboratory uses the most advanced diagnostic and treatment
methods. Rhythm and conduction disorders are detected by means of 3D mapping
and corrected using a treatment method known as ablation. The pacemakers used
to correct heart failure and rhythm-conduction disorders in our patients
conform to US and European standards.

Your coronary veins areimaged using the most advanced methods in our Coronary Angiography and Heart
Catheterization Laboratory. In the event that stenosis or constriction is
detected, the condition is corrected by opening the constriction using balloon
angioplasty and stent procedures. Yeditepe University Hospital allows you to
take advantage of the very latest in stent applications (medication-eluding
stents and biodegradable stents).

Non-surgical aortic valvereplacement or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), and
non-medication-resistant hypertension treatment (Renal Denervation) are some of
the very latest applications that are at the service of all international
patients at Yeditepe University Hospital.