Your heart, which keeps millions of cells alive, is safe in the hands of Liv Hospital’s doctors!
The physicians of the Cardiology Department at Liv Hospital are at the service of their international patients by utilizing the most up-to-date methods in their specialty as a total Heart Team dedicated to providing their international patients with the latest techniques in cardiac diagnosis and treatment. The Department of Cardiology is continually renewing its curative, diagnostic and interventional methods. Our most important duty is to keep up with innovations and offer our foreign patients state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatment.
The following diseases are diagnosed and treated in our Cardiology Centre:
- Coronary artery disease (hardening of the arteries)
- Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
- Heart rhythm and conduction disorders (arrhythmias)
- Heart valve diseases
- Diseases of the aorta
- Peripheral artery disease (artery disease of the legs)
- Heart failure
- Congenital heart disease
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
Technical and technological capacities include:
- Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Laboratory
- Coronary angiography and cardiac catheterization laboratory
- Electrocardiography Laboratory
- The ECG stress test system laboratory with treadmill
- Holter and Blood Pressure
- Coronary artery computed tomographic angiography
- Magnetic resonance imaging of heart
- Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy laboratory (Thallium test)
The following procedures are performed at the Cardiology Centre:
Non-invasive procedures:
- Identification of heart disease risk and follow-up examinations (advanced cardiac monitoring program - SHAPE)
- 2 and 4-dimensional echocardiography and colour Doppler
- Stress echocardiography
- Stress test ECG with exercise
- Rhythm Holter (24 - 48-hour heart rate monitoring)
- Blood pressure Holter (24-hour blood pressure monitoring)
- Tilt test (for differential diagnosis of patients with vasovagal syncope)
- Coronary artery computed tomographic angiography (computed tomography with three-dimensional imaging of the coronary arteries)
- Assessment of coronary artery calcium (computed tomography with three-dimensional imaging of the coronary arteries)
- Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (Thallium test)
Interventional procedures:
- Transoesophageal echocardiography
- Coronary angiography and cardiac catheterization
- Balloon angioplasty and stent placement (drug-eluting stents and biodegradable stents)
- Electrophysiological study (for the diagnosis of rhythm and conduction disturbances)
- Ablation and pacemaker placement (for treatment of rhythm and conduction disorders)
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (to treat heart failure)
- Renal denervation (non-medication treatment of resistant hypertension)
- Non-operative aortic valve replacement or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
Heart disease is one of the most common diseases worldwide - and the deadliest. Therefore, the most effective preventive measure you can take to avoid future heart disease is to make an appointment with a specialist cardiologist to determine your risk factors and schedule regular visits to monitor your heart function and its condition. This risk calculation is done with modern diagnostic methods and does not take much time. It is a good idea to see a cardiologist if any of the following factors apply to you:
- You have a family history of heart disease (mother, father, brother, sister, or child)
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- High cholesterol levels
- Smoking
- Obesity
Liv Hospital uses the latest technology and methods for cardiac screening. Your heart functions are monitored using the latest echocardiography techniques, which provide a four-dimensional assessment of your heart and heart valves. Three-dimensional imaging is also achieved using coronary CT angiography.
The electrophysiology laboratory uses state-of-the-art methods for diagnosis and treatment. Rhythm and conduction disturbances are detected using three-dimensional mapping and are repaired using the treatment method known as ablation. The pacemakers used to correct heart failure and rhythm and conduction disorders in our patients meet US and European standards.
The coronary veins are visualized using the advanced methods of our Coronary Angiography and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. If stenosis or narrowing is found, the condition is corrected by opening the narrowed site using balloon angioplasty or stent placement. Liv Hospital gives you the opportunity to benefit from the latest stent prostheses (drug-eluting stents and biodegradable stents).
Non-surgical aortic valve prosthesis or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and non-medication treatment of resistant hypertension (renal denervation) are some of the latest services offered to our international patients at Liv Hospital.