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PROCEDURES
Physicians at The Kansas Heart Hospital perform some 30 different diagnostic, cardiovascular, peripheral vascular and chest surgery procedures.
Medical procedures and diagnostic studies at the Kansas Heart Hospital include the following:
- Chest x-rays and lung scans
- EKG’s and standard exercise treadmill tests
- Nuclear cardiology stress perfusion tests
- Arterial, venous and carotid Doppler sonography
- Pulmonary function tests
- Stress arterial Doppler studies to assess peripheral vascular disease
- Echocardiography including trans-esophageal echo (TEE)
- Stress echocardiography
- Loop recorder implantation for monitoring heart rhythm abnormalities
- Permanent pacemaker implantation
- Bi-ventricular pacemaker implantation for decrease heart function
- Heart catheterization and coronary angiography
- Coronary balloon and stent procedures including drug-eluting stents
- Peripheral vascular interventions employing stents and balloons
- Arterial closure devices for early ambulation after heart catheterization
- IABP (intra-aortic balloon pump) insertion for the failing of ischemic heart
- Coronary artery by-pass surgery with and without the heart lung machine (so called “beating heart” surgery)
- Heart valve replacement surgery
- Adult congenital heart surgery
- Thoracic and lung surgery
- Carotid artery surgery
- Peripheral vascular surgery
- Endovascular stenting for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy (VAT) for minimally invasive chest surgery procedures
- Intra-operative TMR (trans-myocardial revascularization): laser
- Revascularization for coronary artery blockages
- Intra-operative RFA (radio-frequency ablation) of heart rhythm disorders
- Endovascular vein harvesting of leg veins for coronary artery by-pass surgery
- IVC (inferior vena cava) filter implantation for treatment of severe lower extremity blood clots
