Penn Cardiac Care Services and Programs
Penn Cardiac Care offers the most comprehensive services in the region for diagnosing and treating your heart. To learn more about the program at each location, click on the practices at left.
At each UPHS hospital, the following cardiovascular medicine programs are available:
- Arrhythmia management (electrophysiology)
- Cardiology consultative service
- Heart failure
- Interventional cardiology and angioplasty
- Noninvasive cardiac imaging
- Preventive cardiology
- Vascular medicine
- Women's cardiovascular health
We offer the following cardiothoracic surgery
programs at each of our hospitals:
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Heart transplantation*
- Complex aortic surgery
- Heart valve repair
- Valve repair and replacement in the elderly
- High risk coronary artery bypass surgery
- Minimally invasive vein harvesting
- Minimally invasive and total arterial cardiac
surgery
*Only available at the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania
Penn Cardiac Care offers several unique and highly
specialized services not found at any other facility
in the region. Below is a list of cutting-edge
services available at select Penn Cardiac Care
locations:
- Bloodless medicine/surgery (Pennsylvania
Hospital)
- Cardiac robotic surgery and valve repair
(Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania)
- Non-invasive cardiac imaging:
- HeartCam – Gold
standard EBCT technology for early detection
of heart disease using calcium scoring
(Penn Presbyterian Medical Center)
- Digital echocardiography (Pennsylvania
Hospital)
- Cardiac scoring (Pennsylvania Hospital)
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