Catawba Valley Cardiovascular & Heart Services

Learn More About Your Heart

Committed to high quality and superior outcomes, our accredited Heart Center maintains years of specialized clinical experience and is dedicated to caring for patients with skill and compassion. Our Heart Center staff partners with Catawba Valley Cardiology’s providers to deliver a team-oriented approach to patient heart issues, with a high level of technical expertise.

In 2017, the Heart Center received Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The ACC is the professional home for the entire cardiovascular care team. The mission of the College and its more than 52,000 members is to transform cardiovascular care and to improve heart health. It leads in the formation of health policy, standards and guidelines and operates national registries to measure and improve care, offers cardiovascular accreditation to hospitals and institutions, provides professional medical education, disseminates cardiovascular research and bestows credentials upon cardiovascular specialists who meet stringent qualifications.

The hospital also earned Primary PCI accreditation from the ACC. Catawba Valley Medical Center is a 24/7 STEMI facility treating and caring for patients with Complex Cardiac Emergencies to include: chest pain, heart attacks, and cardiogenic shock.

Cardiac Catheterization Lab

Cardiologists perform vital procedures in our state-of-the-art cath lab. The physicians use catheterization procedures to perform diagnostic heart catheterization as well as balloon angioplasties and stenting of the coronary arteries. Our Cardiac Cath lab at CVMC provides patient centered care with cutting edge technology.

• Procedures Include:
• • PFO closure
  • Intravascular Lithotripsy
  • Left heart cath
  • Right heart cath with or without nitrous
  • Percutaneous coronary interventions to include: Stenting, ballooning, Drug coated balloons, athrectomy, thrombectomy,
  • Impella placemnet
  • Intraaortic balloon pump

Electrophysiology

• Procedures include:
  • Transesophageal Echocardiogram
  • Cardioversions
  • Cardiac Ablations for A fib, A Flutter, PVC, SVT, and V tach
  • Pacemaker implant
  • Defibrillator (ICD) implant
  • Implantable cardiac monitors
  • Intracardiac Echo
  • Mapping of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Interventional Radiology and Vascular Procedure Lab

• Procedures offered by IR:
  • Portacath placement
  • PICC line insertion
  • Dialysis port access
  • IVC Filter placement
  • Pulmonary Embolism treatment and thrombectomy
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Uterine Fibroid Embolization
  • Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)
  • TIPS Procedure (Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt)
  • SIRT Mapping and treatment (Selective Internal Radiation Therapy) to treat liver cancer
  • GI Bleed Embolization
  • Nephrostomy tube placement
  • Pleurx Catheter placement
  • May Thurner Syndrome
  • Venogram

Our vascular surgeons specialize in the intricate network of arteries and veins that keep our bodies running smoothly. Their expertise spans a wide range of procedures and treatments, from minimally invasive techniques to complex surgeries.

• Procedures offered:
  • Treatment of Ischemic limbs
  • Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
  • Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
  • Venous insufficiency
  • AAA repair
  • Transfemoral Carotid Artery Stenting
  • Athrectomy
  • Intravascular Lithotripsy
  • Thrombectomy
  • Angiograms
  • Stenting of Iliac artery, Renal, Femoral artery, etc
  • Ballooning of arteries to include utilization of a drug coated balloon

Inpatient/Critical Care Unit

For heart patients admitted to the hospital, our nursing staff provides attentive, around-the-clock monitoring and treatment.

Outpatient Services

Cardiovascular Testing

Catawba Valley Medical Center’s Cardiovascular Lab offers noninvasive heart monitors, noninvasive stress testing, and ultrasound imaging of the heart (echocardiography) and blood vessels. Echocardiography is also available at Catawba Valley Cardiology. Other exams performed at the Medical Center include cardiac stress testing.

Catawba Valley Cardiology is offering a program specifically dedicated to heart failure management. This innovative program provides an early access clinic for patients experiencing heart failure symptoms. The clinic, which is operated Monday through Friday, offers an alternative to an emergency room visit for patients with minor heart failure symptoms such as shortness of breath or swelling.

Heart Failure Access Clinic

Catawba Valley Cardiology is offering a program specifically dedicated to heart failure management. This innovative program provides an early access clinic for patients experiencing heart failure symptoms. The clinic, which is operated Monday through Friday, offers an alternative to an emergency room visit for patients with minor heart failure symptoms such as shortness of breath or swelling.

Cardiac Device Clinic

The Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation program in our Center for Rehabilitation provides education and a closely-monitored exercise routine through our Center for Rehabilitation for those diagnosed with pulmonary disease or recovering from cardiac surgery or other cardiac events.