Heart Disease

Heart Disease services offered in Homestead, FL

Heart disease takes many forms, all of which require expert diagnosis and treatment to give you optimal quality of life. If you have symptoms of heart disease, the cardiologists at Cardiovascular Wellness Center in Homestead, Florida, can help. They have state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities to find the cause of your symptoms and deliver a range of expert heart disease treatments. Call Cardiovascular Wellness Center to schedule a consultation, or request an appointment online today.

What is heart disease?

Heart disease is a term that covers a wide variety of conditions affecting the functioning of your heart. Examples of heart disease include:

Coronary artery disease (CAD)
Arrhythmias
Heart failure
Heart valve disease
Cardiomyopathy
Pericardial disease
Aorta disease
Heart attack

You can also be born with heart problems, which is known as congenital heart disease.

How are medications used in heart disease treatment?

Medications perform many functions in heart disease treatment. For instance, in emergency care, clot-dissolving drugs (thrombolysis) can eliminate a blood clot that's causing a heart attack.

Other types of medication that can help treat heart disease include:

Anticoagulants
Antiplatelet agents
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
Angiotensin II receptor blockers
Angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors
Beta-blockers
Combined alpha and beta-blockers
Calcium channel blockers
Cholesterol-lowering medications
Digitalis
Diuretics
Vasodilators

Many forms of heart disease are treatable with a combination of medication and lifestyle changes, avoiding the need for more invasive treatments.

Are there other nonsurgical heart disease treatments?

Many types of heart disease are treatable using nonsurgical means. Cardiac catheterization techniques enable the Cardiovascular Wellness Center team to access your heart through arteries in your groin or elsewhere using slim, flexible tubes called catheters.

Angioplasty, or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is one type of treatment that uses this approach. Balloon angioplasty is a cardiac catheterization technique that involves using a tiny balloon to flatten plaque that's blocking an artery.

An alternative technique is laser angioplasty, where your cardiologist uses a beam of focused light energy to clear the artery. They might also insert a small mesh tube called a stent to hold the artery open.

Atherectomy also uses cardiac catheterization, but instead of squashing the plaque, your cardiologist uses a tiny blade to scrape it away.

What other types of heart disease treatment might I need?

In some cases, surgery might be necessary to address the cause of your heart disease. One of the most common surgical procedures for treating heart disease is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to replace a diseased artery.

Implantable devices might sometimes be necessary to treat certain types of heart disease, such as a pacemaker, a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).

The team also uses electrical cardioversion, a noninvasive way of restoring normal heart rhythms.

To learn more about the available treatments for heart disease, call Cardiovascular Wellness Center or request an appointment online today.