Cardiology

• Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels
• Your heart consists of four chambers which pump 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
• the pericardium that envelops the heart
• the electrical system of the heart which is what controls the heart rate

Common Conditions / Procedures / Treatments

• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• Exercise ECG
• Blood tests
• Echocardiogram
• Coronary angiography (cardiac catheterisation)
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart failure
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Valve disease
• Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Cardiac nuclear testing
• CT coronary angiography (CTCA)

Locations

• North Shore Hospital
  Ph (09) 486 8900