HealthEast Heart Care

Our Approach

We believe the best care takes more than superior clinical and medical care. It also requires compassionate, personal care for all patients and their families. HealthEast Heart Care focuses on your individual health and wellness. 

HealthEast Heart Care brings together cardiologists, heart surgeons, and a wide range of other cardiac professionals for convenient, leading-edge care delivered by one of the most advanced teams in the Twin Cities region. We offer:

  • A full spectrum of heart tests, surgical and non-surgical treatments, and rehabilitation
  • Level One – rapid response and treatment for heart attacks
  • Highly-trained staff with years of experience
  • Patient-guided recovery plans, so you'll be involved in your care
  • Healing arts therapies to complement your care, used to promote relaxation and balance
  • A Spiritual Care team, specially trained in cardiovascular services
  • Patient and family conferences that enhance communication and identify needs or concerns

Diagnostic Tests

Certain tests can determine the health of your heart while assessing any damage or disease. We offer the latest in diagnostic testing for measuring the electrical activity of your heart, measuring muscle or pumping function, and identifying abnormalities or blockages in your arteries. Diagnostic services include:
  • Blood tests to assess enzymes and protein levels
  • Calcium scoring CT scan
  • CT angiograms
  • Echocardiogram
  • Electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG)
  • Electrophysiology (EP) studies
  • Heart catheterizations and angiograms
  • Holter monitoring
  • Ambulatory cardiac telemetry (ACT) monitoring
  • Nuclear studies
  • Stress testing, including exercise or treadmill, drug-induced, and nuclear stress tests
  • Tilt table studies

Treatments

Our expert team offers a wide range of sophisticated treatments for cardiovascular disease, many of which can be performed as minimally invasive procedures with less scarring, less blood loss, and quicker recovery.

Minimally invasive procedures

  • Angioplasty
  • Atherectomy
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
  • Catheter ablation, including pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation
  • Complex coronary interventions, including chronic total occlusion (CTO)
  • Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation
  • Laser atherectomy
  • Laser lead extraction for pacemaker lead removal
  • Left atrial appendage closure (WATCHMAN™ Device)
  • Mitral valve repair (MitraClip®)
  • Peripheral vascular angiography and stenting
  • Permanent pacemaker implantation
  • Stent placement
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

Surgical procedures

Open-heart surgeries include:
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) - surgery to bypass narrowed or blocked arteries in the heart
  • Repair or replacement of heart valves
  • Maze procedure to treat heart rhythm problems 
  • Surgery to treat an aneurysm of the aorta

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