Common or complex, routine or emergency, your heart belongs here. USA Health brings cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular care together in one health system, with the most advanced heart and lung support offered in the region.
Whether you’re coming in for a screening, managing an ongoing condition or facing an emergency, USA Health has the care you need. Our heart specialists work as one team, planning your care together around you. And if you need intensive care, you’ll recover in the area’s only dedicated cardiovascular ICU.
Many of the most common heart conditions we diagnose and treat are described below.
Both stable and unstable angina are marked by pain in the heart during stressful situations. The pain arises from the heart getting an insufficient amount of blood flow and oxygen.
This term refers to heart rhythm irregularities, which may be too fast or too slow. A resting heart rate that is too fast is called tachycardia, and a resting heart rate that is too slow is called bradycardia.
Also known AFib, this particular arrhythmia is marked by a flutter in the heart where the time of the contractions in the top of the heart (the atria) is out of sync.
This condition, also called bradyarrhythmia, is a resting heart rate that is too slow, under 60 beats per minute.
A cardiac ischemia occurs when a major heart artery, or one of its branches, becomes blocked. The condition should be addressed before it escalates to a heart attack.
Many patients with coronary artery disease also experience a complete or nearly complete blockage in one of their coronary arteries that last a month or more due to an accumulation of plaque on the artery walls.
This disease occurs when a build-up of plaque in the arteries blocks the blood supply to the heart.
Also known as a myocardial infarction, heart attack happens when a coronary artery remains blocked, thus denying oxygen to part of the heart.
When the heart weakens and is unable to sufficiently pump blood throughout the body at an adequate volume, a person may suffer from heart failure.
With this blood condition, the pressure in the blood vessel that leads from the heart to the lungs rises above normal levels.
A kind of heart rhythm disorder occurs when the heart beats much quicker than it should at rest. It includes ventricular tachycardia, supraventricular tachycardia and sinus tachycardia.
Like AFib, part of the heart—in this case the bottom part or ventricle—is contracting out of sync.
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