Procedures and Tests

The Heart Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center has been a leader in implementing advanced life-saving cardiac technology in Maryland for 25 years. Performing more heart procedures each year than any other Maryland hospital, the Heart Institute offers a range of cardiac care therapies unmatched by any other community hospital.

Featured Procedure 
 
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG)

What does "bypass surgery" mean?

Bypass surgery can be performed on any artery in the body, but most often involves the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle itself). 
 
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Catheterization Lab

• Ablation
• Angiojet Thrombectomy
• Atherectomy
• Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (AICD)
• Coronary Catheterization
• Coronary Stents
• Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Umbrella Placement
• Intraaortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
• Medicated Stents
• Pacemakers
• Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA)
• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)
• Peripheral Stents
• Septal Closures
• Valvuloplasty

Tests

• Aortagram
• Computed Axial Tomography (CAT or CT) / Ultrafact Computed Tomography (CT) Scan
• Coronary Balloon Angioplasty & Stenting
• Echocardiography (ECHO)
• Electrophysiology Study (EPS)
• Electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG)
• Event Recorder
• Holter Monitoring
• Intracardiac Ultrasound (ICE)
• Intravascular Ultrasound (ICE)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/ Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)
• Myocardial Biopsy
• Nuclear Stress Tests
• Peripheral Vascular Angiography
• Pulmonary Angiography
• Ross Procedure
• Signal Averaged Electrocardiogram (SAECG)
• Stress Test
• Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)