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.

DİAGNOSİS AND TREATMENT SERVİCES AVAİLABLE İN CARDİOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Following diseases are diagnosed and treated at cardiology departments: 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 hospitals and outpatient clinics for patients to perform quality control analyses for surgeries.

Procedures carried out at cardiology departments can be summarized as follows:

• NON-İNVASİVE 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

• INVASİVE PROCEDURES

Myocardial scintigraphy

Transesophageal echocardiography

Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography

Coronary angioplasty, stent placement, atherectomy

Heart scintigraphy

All relevant emergency procedures