Southern Heart is a cardiology practice located in Māori Hill, Dunedin.
Southern Heart provides the following diagnostic testing and procedures:
- Echocardiogram
- Exercise ECG
- Exercise Stress Echocardiogram
- Resting ECG
- 24 hour Holter monitor study
- Event monitor study
- 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor
- Coronary angiography
- Transoesophageal Echocardiogram (TOE)
- Pacemaker implantation
- CT Coronary angiography
- Cardiac MRI
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels. Your heart consists of 4 chambers, which are responsible for pumping blood to your lungs and then the rest of your body. The study of the heart includes the heart muscle (the myocardium), the valves within the heart between the chambers, the blood vessels that supply blood (and hence oxygen and nutrients) to the heart muscle, and the electrical system of the heart, which controls the heart rate.
