Heart & Vascular Care at UH Lake West Medical Center

Onsite Heart and Vascular Services

UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute specialists offer the full range of onsite, personalized services at UH Lake West, from preventive diagnostic evaluations to complex minimally invasive interventions and surgical procedures.

This includes award-winning heart attack care as a certified advanced chest pain center. Our experts are specially trained to triage patients with heart attack symptoms to quickly identify critical heart problems and facilitate the appropriate, often lifesaving, treatments to achieve optimal outcomes.

UH Lake West cardiovascular services include:

• 24/7 emergency heart attack care
• General cardiovascular medicine
• Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
• Cardiac imaging
• Noninvasive vascular testing
• Pacemaker clinic
• Heart failure clinic
• Minimally invasive heart procedures
• Endovascular procedures
• Heart surgery
• Vascular surgery
• Cardiac rehabilitation

Through seamless integration with UH Cleveland Medical Center, UH Lake West provides access to the most advanced interventions like ventricular assist devices, heart transplantation, and the largest heart and vascular clinical trial unit in Ohio, which means our patients receive the latest therapies available. UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute teams in both facilities collaborate closely to coordinate patient care.

Heart and Vascular Testing at UH Lake West Medical Center

There are many tests available to understand your risk of heart or vascular disease, pinpoint the cause of your symptoms and guide your treatment. Your doctor will determine which tests are best for you based on your symptoms, risk factors and medical guidelines.

Our facilities are equipped with the best heart imaging technology and staffed by cardiac imaging specialists to ensure precise diagnosis. Diagnostic heart tests include:

• Cardiac stress test
• Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA)
• Coronary artery calcium scoring
• Echocardiogram (Echo)
• Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)
• Holter monitoring
• Nuclear imaging
• Nuclear stress test
• Pharmacological stress echocardiogram
• Stress echocardiogram
• Transesophageal echocardiogram
• Zio patch

Our noninvasive vascular testing laboratories are accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission and staffed with certified registered vascular technologists (RVT) and certified registered physicians in vascular interpretation (RPVI). We provide timely testing and reporting across the complete spectrum of vascular disease. Diagnostic vascular tests include:

• Abdominal duplex (renal, mesenteric, aorta)
• Ankle brachial index and other physiologic testing (upper and lower extremities)
• Arterial duplex (upper and lower extremities)
• Carotid duplex
• Transcranial Doppler
• Venous duplex (lower extremities and abdominal/pelvic)

Heart and Vascular Conditions Diagnosed and Treated at UH Lake West

UH Lake West is staffed with top-rated specialists from UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute in general cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, heart failure cardiology, vascular medicine, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery. All team members have extensive experience providing comprehensive care for men and women with common and complex heart and vascular conditions, including:

• Aortic disease
• Atrial fibrillation and other heart rhythm disorders
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart failure
• Heart valve disease
• Inflammatory heart disease
• Vascular disease