HOSPITAL SERVICES
Our physicians provide the following services at
Mercy Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital

1. Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management
2. Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty
3. Peripheral Vascular Disease
4. Carotid Vascular Disease
5. Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia
6. Heart Failure
7. Pulmonary Hypertension
8. Women's Heart Health
9. Non-invasive Stress Testing
10. Nuclear Cardiology
11. CT Coronary Angiography
12. Preventive Cardiology

Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management

Your risk of heart disease, particular coronary artery disease or "blocked heart arteries," is related to multiple well known risk factors.   These risk factors include advancing age, male sex, family history of coronary artery disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, lack of physical activity and obesity.
A person's risk of having coronary artery disease and future risk of heart attacks and other heart problems can be estimated from the above risk factors.  The cardiologists at the Iowa City & Cedar Rapids Heart Centers, PC are experts in identifying and assessing these risk factors and your risk for heart disease. We also recommend steps that can reduce these risks, including drug therapy to reduce blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, individualized diet and exercise programs to promote weight loss and physical fitness, and steps to help with smoking cessation.  
We also determine if further tests would be indicated to help better determine your risk of coronary artery disease. These tests include non-invasive stress tests, coronary artery calcium scoring or non-invasive CT scan coronary angiograms. Please see the other sections of the website for details on these tests.