Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine provides high-quality heart health services, vast research opportunities, and comprehensive education and training programs.
Heart Care
Prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of all types of heart disease
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Comprehensive Cardiology Services from Heart Specialists
At Lahey Clinic, you'll receive personalized heart care from highly specialized and caring cardiologists, working together in the Dr. Emanuel and Sheila Landsman Heart and Vascular Institute. You'll benefit from the latest technology to detect and diagnose heart problems. You'll also have access to the most advanced treatments, including minimally invasive and endovascular procedures.
Our cardiology and vascular specialists provide offer the newest innovations in cardiovascular care through access to clinical trials, while educating the next generation of cardiovascular physicians through our nationally recognized cardiology and subspecialty fellowship training programs.
From preventive cardiology services to expert second opinions, you’ll find everything you need to care for your heart at Lahey. In fact, the Dr. Emanuel and Sheila Landsman Heart & Vascular Institute at Lahey brings together a team of experts to ensure you get comprehensive care for your entire cardiovascular system. With specialists from general cardiology, electrophysiology, advanced cardiac imaging, interventional cardiology, heart failure and transplantation, vascular medicine and cardiac surgery, we are able to create an individual treatment plan for every patient.
Conditions We Treat
Our board-certified cardiologists have experience treating a wide variety of both common and complex heart-related conditions, including:
- Abnormal rhythms (arrhythmia)
- Atrial fibrillation (AFib)
- Abnormalities of the heart valves
- Aortic valve disease
- Mitral valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Chest pain
- Congestive heart failure
- Coronary artery disease
- Fainting
- Heart failure
- Heart muscle disorders
- Cardiac amyloidosis
- Cardiac sarcoid
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- High cholesterol (hyperlipidemia)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Palpitations
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Shortness of breath
- Tachycardia (fast heart rate)
- Vascular conditions
We perform over 20,000 specialized cardiovascular tests each year. You can count on our experience and expertise. These include lab and imaging tests and genetic screening. Specialized heart tests, such as echocardiograms and electrophysiology studies are also available.
Experienced Cardiovascular Specialists
Here, you have a team of heart experts who care for you. They specialize in different areas of cardiovascular medicine. But they combine their experience to help you receive excellent care.
Whether your condition is simple or complex, our team can help you get an accurate diagnosis. Then, together, we develop a treatment plan that’s just right for you. We also provide timely second opinions. From the moment you walk through our doors, we ensure you have all the information you need to decide what’s best for you.
Cardiac Surgery
Our cardiac surgeons (heart surgeons) offer the latest treatments for heart conditions that are common and complex.
More About Heart Care
Specialty Heart Care
There are many types of heart conditions. Each requires specialized care. Our cardiovascular specialty programs offer expertise and focused attention for:
- Arrhythmias
- Cardiovascular disease prevention and lipid disorders
- Heart failure
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Heart valve structural issues
Specialized heart care for people with cancer and those with kidney-related blood pressure issues is also available.
Special Attention for Special Populations
You may have unique risk factors for heart disease. And you may benefit from a unique approach to your care. Our South Asian Cardio-Metabolic Program recognizes this. Through the program, you get screening, education, surveillance and more.
Comprehensive Treatments
Sometimes, simple treatments like lifestyle changes or medications can have a big impact on your heart health. Whenever possible, we turn to these treatments first. If doctors prescribe blood thinners, our anticoagulation clinic monitors you to make sure your treatment remains safe and effective.
When necessary, we offer more invasive treatments, such as cardiac surgery. Our critical care team may care for you immediately after surgery. And cardiac rehabilitation may help you recover from surgery or other heart procedures and conditions.
In many cases, you may be a candidate for minimally invasive surgery or, perhaps, an interventional cardiology procedure. These procedures typically cause less pain and fewer complications than traditional surgery. They also result in shorter hospital stays.
Interventional cardiology treats heart conditions with catheters we pass through your blood vessels. This helps you avoid traditional, open surgery. We use interventional procedures in several treatments, including heart valve repair or replacement.
The process of inserting catheters into a blood vessel and directing them to your heart — cardiac catheterization — can also help us diagnose certain heart conditions.
