Heart & Vascular Conditions We Treat

Angina: Chest pain or discomfort that happens when the heart muscle is not getting enough blood. It may feel like pressure or a squeezing pain in the chest. The pain also may occur in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back. It may feel like indigestion. 

Aortic Aneurysm: An enlargement or bulge in the aorta (the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the body) that can rupture or burst. A dissection is a tear in the aorta, which may cause life-threatening internal bleeding.

Arrhythmia: An abnormal heart rhythm, either too slow (bradycardia, less than 60 beats per minute), too fast (tachycardia, more than 100 beats per minute) or irregular. An arrhythmia can affect how well your heart works and may prevent it from pumping enough blood to meet your body’s needs. Ventricular fibrillation is a serious arrhythmia that leads to death unless treated right away with an electrical shock to the heart (called defibrillation). Other arrhythmias are less severe but can develop into more serious conditions, such as atrial fibrillation, which can cause a stroke.

Atrial Fibrillation: A type of arrhythmia that can cause rapid, irregular beating of the heart’s upper chambers. Blood may pool and clot inside the heart, increasing the risk for heart attack and stroke.

Atherosclerosis: When plaque builds up inside the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart, making it hard for blood to flow through. Having high cholesterol increases your risk of atherosclerosis. If a blood clot forms, it can block the blood flow and cause a heart attack or stroke.

Cardiac Arrest: Sudden loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness, usually because of a problem with the heart’s electrical system. If not treated immediately, it results in sudden cardiac death.

Cardiomyopathy: When the heart muscle becomes enlarged or stiff. Cardiomyopathy can lead to inadequate heart pumping or other problems. 

Cholesterol: Unhealthy blood cholesterol levels can increase your risk for heart disease. Our providers can recommend lifestyle changes and prescribe medicines, as well as treat conditions that might be causing your blood cholesterol problem.

Congenital Heart Defects: Problems with the heart that are present at birth, such as abnormal heart valves or holes in walls that divide the heart’s chambers.

Congestive Heart Failure: Also called Heart Failure. When the heart is too weak to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs and fluid builds up in the lungs, liver, legs and feet.

Coronary Artery Disease: A heart problem that happens when fatty deposits called plaque build up inside the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your heart. This process of plaque buildup is called atherosclerosis, and it can lead to heart attack or ischemic stroke.

Heart Attack: When a blood clot is stuck in a blood vessel that goes to the heart. If this clot cuts off the blood flow completely, the part of the heart muscle supplied by that artery begins to die.

Heart Failure: Also called Congestive Heart Failure, narrowed arteries in the heart or high blood pressure can slowly make the heart weak or stiff so it's harder to pump blood. Heart failure is when the heart doesn’t pump blood as it should.

Heart Murmurs: Heart murmurs are sounds made by blood circulating through the heart’s chambers and valves, or through blood vessels near the heart. Innocent murmurs are common in children and are harmless. Abnormal heart murmurs are often caused by defective heart valves. Certain congenital defects and other conditions can also cause murmurs.

Heart Valve Disease: This can include stenosis (when heart valves do not open enough to allow blood to flow through as it should), regurgitation (when heart valves do not close properly and blood leaks through) or prolapse (when valve leaflets bulge or prolapse back into the upper chamber).

High Blood Pressure: Also known as hypertension, when blood flows through your arteries at higher-than-normal pressures. The first number in your blood pressure reading is your systolic pressure, the force of the blood flow when blood is pumped out of the heart. The second number is your diastolic pressure, which is measured between heartbeats when the heart is filling with blood. According to the American College of Cardiology, a normal blood pressure for adults is a systolic measurement of less than 120 mmHg and a diastolic reading under 80 mmHg. When either number is too high for too long, you are at risk for stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and more.

Irregular heart rhythms: Also called arrhythmia, an abnormal heart rhythm can affect how well your heart works and may prevent it from pumping enough blood to meet your body’s needs. Your heart rhythm may be too slow (bradycardia, less than 60 beats per minute), too fast (tachycardia, more than 100 beats per minute) or irregular. Ventricular fibrillation is a serious arrhythmia that leads to death unless treated right away with an electrical shock to the heart (called defibrillation). Other arrhythmias are less severe but can develop into more serious conditions, such as atrial fibrillation, which can cause a stroke.

Peripheral Artery Disease: When the arms and legs (usually the legs) do not get enough blood because the arteries that supply them have become narrow or stiff. 

Pulmonary Hypertension: When the pressure in the arteries leading from the heart to the lungs is too high.

Stroke: The risk factors that lead to heart disease can also lead to an ischemic stroke, which happens when the arteries to the brain are narrowed or blocked. When too little blood reaches the brain, brain tissue begins to die within just a few minutes.