Services Offered

The following is a brief description of Centennial Heart & Vascular Center’s key services:

Cardiovascular Imaging
Cardiovascular Rehabilitation
Cardiovascular Research
Chest Pain Center
Clinical Cardiology
Comprehensive Valve Program
Electrophysiology and Pacing
Heart Care Network
Heart Failure Clinic
Invasive Cardiology

Surgery:

Cardiovascular Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Vascular/Endovascular Surgery

Vascular Medicine

Cardiovascular Imaging

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center and our affiliates use advanced, interventional, and noninvasive diagnostic tools for accurately assessing heart conditions. These procedures—available to both inpatients and outpatients—include:

Cardiac Dual Source CT
Cardiac CT
Cardiac Calcium Scoring
Cardiac MRI
Angiography
Cardiac Catheterization (Angiogram)
Doppler Ultrasound
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG)
Electrophysiology Studies (EP)
Fractional Flow Analysis
Gated Blood Pool Scan (MUGA)
Holter Monitoring
Intravascular Ultrasound
Nuclear Studies
Stress Electrocardiography
Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
Tilt Tables
X-Ray

Cardiovascular Rehabilitation

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center offers nutritional services, prescriptive exercise programs, stress testing, risk reduction programs, exercise physiologists, and more to help those who already have heart and vascular disease and those who are at high risk of developing it.

Cardiovascular Research

Through active participation in some of the country’s most important clinical trials, Centennial Heart & Vascular Center's physicians are able to find new or better ways to treat our patients and to evaluate the effectiveness of those treatments.

Patients who participate in our cardiovascular research studies receive access to the most promising investigational treatments available, designed by the leading experts in the field.

Participation in a study often provides access to a new and more effective drug or treatment before it is generally available to the public.

Patients participate in clinical trials for many reasons, including:

Improved management of symptoms resulting from treatment of their disease.
The opportunity to directly contribute to improving the understanding of how to treat their disease, and ultimately, benefit other patients.

To learn more about our cardiovascular research program, visit The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centennial.

Clinical Cardiology

The primary entry point for most Centennial Heart & Vascular Center patients is through our extensive clinical cardiology program. Our cardiologists see patients with both common heart problems and rare and complex heart conditions, and listen carefully as they devise the very best evaluation and treatment plans for each patient’s situation. We provide state-of-the-art tests and procedures, which allow us to assess conditions and present treatment options with greater accuracy and confidence. Our cardiologists and surgeons work closely to ensure seamless care and better outcomes.

Comprehensive Valve Program

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center’s comprehensive valve program features cardiac surgeons who are pioneers in this field and can often offer surgical solutions that are not available at most hospitals. For example, our cardiac surgeons aim to repair malfunctioning heart valves before opting for total valve replacement.

Our High Risk Cardiac Valve Clinic team offers non-operative candidates with critical aortic stenosis several treatment options, including medical therapy, balloon valvuloplasty, and percutaneous aortic valve replacement.

Heart valve problems that benefit from surgery include congenital valve disorders, leaky valves that don't close properly (regurgitation), infected valves and narrowed valves that don't open correctly (stenosis). Many options exist for the best outcome, including:

Mitral valve repair and aortic valve repair
Stentless valves
Ross procedure
Minimally invasive valve surgery
Robotic valve procedures
Mitral chordal repair
Repair of congenital valve disorders
Mechanical heart valve replacement
Biological heart valve replacement
Tissue heart valve replacement

Our cardiac surgeons regularly take on challenging cases, such as those that involve the repair or replacement of multiple valves or operations to correct unsuccessful valve surgeries. Many of our patients are considered high risk, including people who have had several prior heart surgeries, those with pre-existing medical conditions, elderly and overweight individuals, and people who have been turned down for heart surgery at other hospitals. While we routinely care for high-risk patients, our team welcomes any patient with a heart valve problem that can benefit from surgery.

Electrophysiology and Pacing

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center offers a variety of highly specialized treatment approaches for patients having difficulty with their heart’s rhythm and electrical signaling. Heart rhythm disorders can be treated with medications or with a wide range of electrophysiology, mapping, and ablation procedures as well as devices, such as a pacemaker or defibrillator (ICD). We treat many different forms of arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, using surgical techniques, like Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI), for:

Atrial fibrillation (AFIB) (the most common heart rhythm disorder)
Atrial flutter
Tachycardia (heart beats too fast)
Bradycardia (heart beats too slow)
Supraventricular tachycardia
Wolfe Parkinson White syndrome
Ventricular tachycardia
Neurogenic disorders such as syncope
Other complex arrhythmias

Chest Pain Center

Centennial Medical Center is an accredited Chest Pain Center with a 3 Star Designation - the highest designation - by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC). Specially trained nurses and board-certified physicians are always ready to quickly and effectively diagnose and treat a patient experiencing heart attack symptoms, 24 hours a day.

Heart Care Network

Centennial Medical Center and our sister TriStar Health System hospitals were the first in the state and among the first in the nation to achieve Chest Pain Accreditation.

We have been working together as a network for more than a decade to provide community-based angioplasty, stenting, and other minimally invasive procedures.

When more specialized heart care is required, patients may be quickly and seamlessly transferred downtown to Centennial Heart & Vascular Center.

For patients having a heart attack, The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Joint Commission have established that blood flow should be re-established with 90 minutes of the patient’s arrival at the hospital’s Emergency Room.

Our average time is lower than the national benchmark of 90 minutes. Because of this success, we're able to save more heart muscle, which leads to better outcomes for our patients.

Heart Failure Care

Our board-certified cardiologists are focused on developing and administering effective therapies for treating and managing heart failure and cardiomyopathy. The heart failure program equips patients to self-manage their condition, which helps alleviate symptoms, prevents reoccurrence of symptoms, and decreases the need for emergency care or hospitalization.

Interventional Cardiology

Our medical professionals help diagnose and treat almost every kind of heart disease known to man. We offer the latest, most technologically advanced diagnostic tests and treatments for problems as common as chest pain (angina) or as serious as a heart attack (myocardial infarction). This may involve stents, angioplasty, ultrasound techniques, emboli-protection devices, enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), and catheter-based cardiac assist devices like the Impella.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center handles even the most complex operations with success rates above the national average. The latest surgical techniques, equipment, and devices are used, including minimally invasive surgery, off-pump bypass, robotic, and percutaneous procedures, including:

Coronary artery bypass surgery:
- Coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG )
- On-pump bypass surgery
- Off-pump bypass surgery –“beating heart” surgery done without heart/lung machine
- Robotically-assisted totally endoscopic coronary bypass (TECAB)
- Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB)
- Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMR) – for inoperable coronary artery disease patients
- All arterial grafting (LIMA/RIMA)
Heart valve surgery:
- Valve repair surgery
- Valve replacement surgery
- Robotically assisted
- Robotic artificial chordal repair
Surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation:
- Maze procedure
- “Mini-Maze”
- Robotically assisted "Mini Maze"
Surgical procedures to treat heart failure:
- Left ventricular reconstructive surgery (Dor Procedure)
- Temporary ventricular assist device
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy surgery (HOCM)

Aortic surgery

Connective tissue disorder surgery (Marfan syndrome)

Thoracic Surgery

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center thoracic surgeons utilize a variety of procedures to treat diseases of the lung and esophagus, including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung failure, esophageal cancer, Barrett's esophagus, achalasia, thoracic outlet syndrome, and hyperhidrosis.

Vascular/Endovascular Surgery

Comprehensive services are offered for all types of peripheral vascular disorders, including carotid artery disease, aortic aneurysms, and poor circulation to the legs and the abdominal organs.

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center utilizes new catheter-based intervention technology as well as traditional surgical treatment for aneurysms, obstructive arterial disease, and peripheral vascular disease.

Common procedures include:

Atherectomy using the FoxHollow device
Carotid stenting
Endovascular stent grafts for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA)

Vascular Medicine

Centennial Heart & Vascular Center provides a multidisciplinary team of experts to detect, diagnose, and manage complex and common diseases of the blood vessels, including peripheral artery disease, diffuse and premature atherosclerosis, conditions such as Raynaud’s disease, and arterial, venous, and lymphatic disorders.

Services

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