General & Preventive Cardiology Conditions, Diagnostics & Treatments
If you require cardiac risk assessment, diagnosis or treatment, our team of cardiologists apply their extensive knowledge and skills to provide a comprehensive approach to your care. Consistently ranked among the best Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Surgery programs by U.S. News & World Report, Cedar-Sinai is a national leader in preventive cardiac care and offers many noninvasive approaches to diagnostic testing within its Cardiac Laboratory.
Learn more about the general and preventive conditions we treat and the diagnostics and treatments we offer.
Conditions
- Abnormal electrocardiogram
- Chest pain
- Genetic cardiovascular conditions
- Heart failure
- Heart murmur
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- History of a heart attack
- History of rheumatic fever
- Hypertensive heart disease
- Identification and evaluation for the presence and severity of valvular heart disease
- Identification and evaluation for the presence of aortic aneurysms (both genetic and nonfamilial)
- Imaging to identify cardio-embolic source
- Irregular heart rhythm/palpitations
- Pre-operative evaluations
- Previous cardiac surgery or procedure, follow-up and monitoring
- Serial evaluation of structural heart disease, from mild forms not requiring treatment to entities requiring medical therapy only, to those requiring percutaneous or surgical interventions
- Shortness of breath
- Stroke prevention and evaluation of cardio-embolic source
- Syncope
Diagnostics
The Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratory performs noninvasive diagnostic tests in the laboratory for the heart rhythm and heart function. Two key areas of focus are:
- Electrocardiography, which performs electrocardiograms, treadmill exercise stress testing, tilt table studies, Holter monitoring, event monitoring, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, pacemaker/Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) follow-up and cardioversions.
- Echocardiography, which performs echocardiograms including transthoracic echocardiograms, transesophageal echocardiograms, bicycle exercise stress echocardiograms, pacing echocardiograms and dobutamine echocardiograms.
In addition, Cedars-Sinai also offers:
- Bubble study with saline contrast
- Cardiac MRI
- Carotid artery intima-media thickness
- Contrast enhanced echocardiography
- Coronary calcium scanning
- Coronary CT angiography
- Loop recorders
- Nuclear/PET cardiac imaging
- Strain echocardiography
- ZIO patch monitoring
Treatments
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Chest pain
- Post-cardiac surgery
- Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP)
- Chest pain
- Lifestyle modifications
- Diet
- Exercise
- Smoking cessation
- Diet
- Medications
- Blood thinners
- Coronary artery disease
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Palpitations
- Blood thinners
Getting Started With Treatment
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