Cardiovascular Services
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers a non-invasive screening designed for detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) before there are any clinical symptoms. The goal is to help those who are at a high risk for the disease, receive a diagnosis and treatment at an early stage when it is easier to treat and intervene.
Other types of tests we offer
- 30-Day Event Recorders
- 4-Hour Holter Monitors
- Arterial Vascular Study Lower Extremity
- Dobutamine Stress Test with Echocardiography Imaging or Nuclear Imaging
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Exercise Stress Test
- Lexiscan Stress Test
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
Your heart is technically one big muscle that pumps blood for the rest of your body. If there is a problem with that muscle, cardiac catheterization can offer a fast, less invasive way to fix it whether you’re in an emergency situation or scheduling a diagnostic procedure.
Some of the procedures offered in our Cardiac Cath Lab include
- Coronary and left ventricular digital angiograph
- Right and left heart catheterization
- Balloon angioplasty
- Rotational and directional atherectomy
- Stent implantation thrombectomy carotid angiography and stenting
- Peripheral angiography and intervention
- Structural heart – atrial septal defect (ASD), patent foramen ovale (PFO), balloon valvuloplasty, TAVR and MitraClip
Electrophysiology studies are tests that help your doctor understand an abnormal heart rhythm or arrhythmia. In fact, we are one of the first hospitals in Florida to offer the CARTO 3 System, one of the most sophisticated tools to allow us a more precise image of the problem and shorter procedure times.
Palm Beach Gardens Heart & Vascular Institute uses some of the latest technology to deliver quality, comprehensive care to our patients with diseases of the vascular system — the arteries and veins.
We’re the first in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin County to offer a minimally invasive procedure that combines the best of electrophysiology and cardiac surgery treatments to help restore normal heart rhythm for longtime sufferers of atrial fibrillation (AFib).
A minimally invasive treatment option for high-risk patients suffering from carotid artery disease. Ask your doctor if you are a candidate for TCAR, which helps repair clogged carotid arteries and reduce the risk of stroke.
This minimally invasive surgical procedure repairs the valve without removing the old, damaged valve. Instead, it wedges a replacement valve into the aortic valve’s place. The surgery may be called a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
Patients with atrial septal defect (ASD)/patent foramen ovale (PFO) and history of strokes or evidence of heart failure are often eligible for percutaneous closure. Typically, these procedures are performed with conscious sedation and no need for general anesthesia or TEE. Patients are usually discharged home the next day.
AFib ablation involves threading a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter into the heart through a blood vessel in the arm, upper thigh or neck. Live X-ray images are used to carefully guide the catheter into the heart. Several flexible tubes with electrodes on the tips are run through the catheter and placed in different small blood vessels in the heart. Sections of the heart are then mapped to locate abnormal tissue.
AFib can be treated laparoscopically and new minimally invasive surgeries are available for select patients.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair procedures can be done surgically or through minimally invasive techniques. AAA procedures are used to treat an aneurysm (abnormal enlargement) of the abdominal aorta.
Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is the minimally invasive procedure that places stents inside a blocked artery and allows blood flow through the stent in place of the artery.
Percutaneous transcatheter paravalvular leak (PVL) closure is now a treatment option for patients who develop leaks around prosthetic heart valves. The procedure uses several types of vascular plugs which can be implanted via an artery or vein in the leg, and patients are normally discharged within the following 2 days.
