Cardiology Services in Richardson

Cardiovascular disease (conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels) can significantly impact your quality of life. We help protect your heart health, so you can spend more time with the ones you love. That’s community and why so many people Trust Methodist.

Why Choose Methodist Richardson for Cardiology

At The Methodist Richardson Medical Center Heart and Vascular Center, we’re leaders in cardiac disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. We provide a wide range of services, including an outpatient clinic, advanced imaging and monitoring services, and potentially lifesaving emergency care.

Highlights of our program include:

• A coordinated and experienced team: Together, the heart and vascular specialists at Methodist Richardson provide you with needed heart care. Your heart care team may include cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, general thoracic surgeons, and vascular surgeons.
• Comprehensive preventive care: We help you lower your risk of developing heart disease and experiencing a heart attack. With regular screenings and personalized care plans, our team works to keep you heart healthy.
• Emergency cardiac care: Chest pain, heart attack, and other heart-related emergencies can happen without warning. Our team is available 24/7, 365 days a year, when every minute counts.
• Cardiac rehabilitation: If you’ve experienced a sudden heart episode, or have undergone surgery, you may benefit from cardiac rehab. We help you rebuild cardiac health and lower your risk of future complications through a supervised program.

Cardiovascular Conditions We Treat

At Methodist Richardson, the team of heart and vascular specialists treats numerous conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels.

The most common heart and vascular conditions we treat include:

• Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat), including atrial fibrillation (AFib) and tachycardia
• Cardiac emergencies, such as chest pain and heart attack
• Coronary artery disease or (CAD), a narrowing or blockage of the blood vessels that bring blood to the heart
• Heart failure, occurs when the heart can’t pump enough blood for what your body needs
• Hypertension (high blood pressure) and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol)
• Peripheral vascular disease, a term for conditions that affect the blood vessels of the arms and legs, including deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and Raynaud's disease
• Structural heart disease, these conditions affect the chambers, walls, muscles, and valves of the heart — including mitral valve regurgitation and cardiomyopathy

Diagnostic Procedures We Offer

The cardiovascular team uses noninvasive and minimally invasive procedures to monitor, assess, and diagnose heart and vascular conditions.

Diagnostic tests we offer include:

• Angiogram: This test uses X-rays and contrast dye to produce images of the heart’s blood vessels.
• Echocardiogram: An ultrasound that creates pictures of the structures of the heart, such as the valves and chambers.
• Heart rhythm monitoring: This test uses monitoring devices that record the heart’s electrical activity and rhythm.
• Stress tests: These tests use supervised exercise to evaluate how well the heart works during physical activity compared to its resting state.

Cardiovascular Treatments We Offer

At Methodist Richardson, we provide treatment options for cardiovascular conditions, from preventive care to open-heart surgery.

Treatments we provide include:

• Preventive care: Preventive medicine specialists evaluate your risk of heart disease. We help you manage your risk factors, so they don’t get worse. Your preventive care plan may include blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, exercise and nutrition recommendations, and stress management techniques.
• Medication and lifestyle changes: You can take actionable steps to help manage your symptoms and reduce the risk of complications. We encourage certain lifestyle changes, like exercising more, to complement other treatments and improve overall heart health.
• Angioplasty and stenting: Our skilled vascular surgeons perform minimally invasive catheterization procedures, including angioplasty and stenting. We perform these procedures to help restore normal blood flow to the arteries. If needed, our surgeons place a stent in the artery to assist in keeping it open and reducing the risk of blockages in the future.
• Implantable devices: We use these devices to treat heart rhythm disorders and help manage heart failure. Heart and vascular surgeons at Methodist Richardson place implantable devices under the skin and connect them to the heart using thin small wires.
• Open heart surgery: Your heart and vascular surgeon may recommend open heart surgery when less invasive techniques aren’t possible. We perform open surgery for more complex diagnoses.

Experienced Vascular Surgery Specialists

Our team of vascular surgeons is trained and experienced in diagnosing and treating conditions of the blood vessels. We perform a range of procedures, including minimally invasive techniques, interventional treatments, complex operations, and open surgery.

We’re ready to treat vascular emergencies that require immediate attention, including heart attack and stroke.

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