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Cardiology

The specialist cardiovascular unit is world-renowned for its cardiovascular disease risk prevention department and offers a full range of invasive and non-invasive diagnostic cardiological investigations. We are at the cutting-edge of cardiac intervention including percutaneous heart valve treatments, innovations in electrophysiology, new forms of cardiac imaging and the investigation of syncope. Our cardiologists also work with the obstetric team to achieve successful outcomes for pregnancies in mothers with cardiac disease. The International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH) facilitates the translation of cutting-edge cardiovascular discoveries to patient care so that new treatments are offered to patients as early as possible.

The service provides:

• A full range of cardiological investigations and treatments
• Experienced cardiologists with a range of sub-specialties
• A coronary care unit with specialist nurses
• An extensive cardiac rehabilitation programme
• ECG, Holter monitoring, event recording, exercise treadmill testing, transthoracic echocardiography including contrast echo, dyssynchrony assessment and 3D echo, transoesophageal echo and stress echocardiography
• Rapid access chest pain assessment service
• Specialist heart failure and arrhythmia clinics and joint heart failure and arrhythmia programmes with the local PCTs
• MVO2 exercise testing to facilitate diagnosis and risk stratification
• Haemodynamic biventricular pacemaker optimisation
• Specialist inherited cardiac disease service (for more information go to the inherited cardiac conditions service website)
• Percutaneous aortic and mitral valve assessment treatments
• Cardiac programmes with lifestyle advice, counselling and support group
• The worlds first clinical electrophysiology catheter lab with an integrated Hansen Robotic System
• A comprehensive syncope service with an extensive range of diagnostic modalities

Hypertension services
St Mary’s is an internationally recognised centre for hypertension research. The Peart-Rose Clinic at the ICCH carries out the assessment, investigation and management of patients with hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors.

The department has a particular interest in patients with secondary causes of hypertension, accelerated hypertension, hypertension in pregnancy and patients with resistant hypertension or multiple drug intolerances.

As well as the drug treatment of hypertension, clinic staff also advise on lifestyle measures (such as diet and exercise) for cardiovascular health. A 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring service is provided for both patients attending the clinic and those referred by local GPs.

Consultants

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Hypertension specialist consultants
Dr Neil Chapman, Prof Neil Poulter, Dr Mike Schachter, Prof Peter Sever, Prof Simon Thom

Joint consultant appointments with other hospitals
Dr Phil Moore, Dr Anthony Nathan, Dr Amanda Varnava, Dr Roland Wensel

Location
The cardiac catheter labs and the daycare ward are in the basement of Clarence wing.

Cardiology patients are admitted onto Samuel Lane ward and the coronary care unit in the QEQM building.

The Peart-Rose Clinic is on the ground floor of the ICCH, 59-61 North Wharf Road. This is a short walk (200 metres) across the canal from the QEQM building. The clinic operates Monday to Friday, 09.00 to 17.00.