Anticoagulation

HomeHealth ServicesOutpatient ServicesAnticoagulation

ECMC’s full-service Center for Cardiovascular Care provides consultation and treatment for a variety of cardiovascular diseases. Here, patients can access state-of-the-art, non-invasive and diagnostic laboratories, including a full-service pacemaker clinic for follow-up care of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators.

The Center for Cardiovascular Care includes the practices of Drs. Robert F. Glover, Victor Vacanti, and Jai Wadhwani. The Center also cares for patients of the ECMC cardiology service and patients of Dr. Arthur Orlick.

Physicians and advanced practice providers offer inpatient cardiovascular consultations at ECMC and outpatient care, including chronic cardiovascular care management, new patient cardiovascular consultations, and pre-surgical cardiovascular evaluations.

The Center offers pacemaker/defibrillator monitoring and follow-up, diagnostic testing, including electrocardiography, echocardiography, stress testing, coronary angiography, and anticoagulation monitoring.

The Center is open and accepting new patients.

Conditions & Diseases

CMC’s Center for Cardiovascular Care provides consultation and treatment for a variety of cardiovascular diseases, including:

  • Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)
  • Congenital (at birth) heart disease
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Heart-valve diseases
  • Hypertension
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (thickening of the heart muscle)
  • Pulmonary hypertension

Treatments & Procedures

Patients have access to ECMC’s state-of-the-art, non-invasive and diagnostic laboratories, which perform the following services:

  • Angiography (X-ray of the inside of blood vessels)
  • Electrocardiography (EKG or ECG)
  • Holter monitoring (long-term recording of heart rate)
  • Echocardiography (ultrasound)
  • Stress testing (blood flow)
  • Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
  • Anticoagulation Center
  • Pacemaker clinic (for follow-up care of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators)