Procedures.
With the best and brightest minds using the latest technology, we handle all matters of the heart in the way you’d expect from Indiana’s top cardiac care provider. It’s all part of what we mean by the best heart care in Indiana. Period.
Imaging services.
St.Vincent Heart Center of Indiana has one of the Midwest’s most advanced cardiovascular imaging programs, providing comprehensive multimodality imaging for the full range of cardiovascular issues.
We’re also well equipped to provide referring physicians with the information you need, when you need it. Our web-based image display and storage system provides us with remote access to images for interpretation and review, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We can also send de-identified, HIPAA-compliant images directly to referring physicians via e-mail at your request. You can access the images immediately after the study is completed.
Capabilities include:
Cardiac MRI. One of the premier cardiac MRI programs in the U.S. Cardiac MRI is capable of providing more accurate, precise, and detailed diagnostic information for a broad range of cardiac pathology. Superior imaging of global and regional cardiac function, myocardial infarction/scarring, viability, valvular disease, ventricular thrombus, and myocardial ischemia evaluation with pharmacologic stress testing, has positioned cardiac MRI as the preferred imaging modality for patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction, and coronary artery disease.
Cardiac CTA. Multi-slice computed tomography technology is now able to directly image the coronary arteries, providing a non-invasive method to identify coronary artery disease for the first time. Currently, cardiac CTA is most commonly employed to evaluate anomalous coronary arteries, patients with equivocal or mildly abnormal stress tests, and patients with a chest pain syndrome at intermediate risk for cardiac events. It is also commonly used to evaluate pulmonary vein and coronary sinus anatomy prior to advanced electrophysiology procedures such as atrial fibrillation ablation and implantation of bi-ventricular pacemakers.
Vascular CTA/MRA. 3-D tomographic imaging of the peripheral vasculature with CTA and MRA has changed the approach to evaluating patients with peripheral arterial disease. The superior imaging of the peripheral vasculature—cerebral arteries, carotid arteries, thoracic and abdominal aorta, aortic arch and arch vessels, renal arteries, mesenteric arteries, iliac, femoral and lower extremity vasculature—provided by three-dimensional CTA and MRA provides essential anatomic information to guide planning of surgical and catheter-based revascularization procedures. As a result, patients are less likely to receive invasive angiography for diagnostic purposes, avoiding the risks inherent in x-ray angiography.
Coronary Calcium CT Scan. With a cost of only $99, St.Vincent Heart Center of Indiana’s HeartScan program has made this coronary artery disease imaging study more affordable for our patients. Cardiac risk stratification incremental to Framingham scores makes this test useful for asymptomatic patients at intermediate risk based on cardiac risk factors.
Echocardiography. Standard transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography services are provided including Doppler imaging, treadmill and dobutamine stress testing, strain-rate imaging, and left ventricular dyssynchrony evaluation. Our interpreting physicians and technicians are amongst the best-trained, most-experienced echocardiographers in the Midwest.
Nuclear Perfusion Imaging. Technetium 99m-sestamibi perfusion stress imaging provides important diagnostic and prognostic information for patients being evaluated for chest pain syndromes.
3-D workstations. Two fully functional 3-D workstations (Aquarius, Terra-recon; Leonardo, Siemens) provide all image post-processing evaluation including: 3-D rotating volume reconstructed tomograms of all vasculature, vessel area and percent stenosis, quantitative ventricular volume, mass, cardiac output and ejection fraction, intracardiac shunting, and flow analysis.
For further information about referring your patients, please contact us at 317-583-5151.