Advancing Cardiovascular Health and Personalizing Care in the Bay Area For more than 30 years, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital has provided residents of Houston’s Bay Area with quality cardiovascular care. And since launching its Cardiac Surgery program in January 2018, the hospital’s heart and vascular program has rapidly evolved to include advanced care options to meet the needs of the area’s diverse and growing population. “With our excellent physicians, support staff, and state-of-the-art technology, we at Memorial Hermann Southeast are able to handle many patients who were previously referred to the Texas Medical Center,” says affiliated cardiologist Rajeev Grover, MD, incoming chair of the Cardiology Department at Memorial Hermann Southeast. “Our patients take comfort in knowing they are getting the same quality of care found in the larger Memorial Hermann Health System, right here in their own community.” Wide Spectrum of Heart Care Heart disease remains the No. 1 22
cause of death in the United States. About 2,000 Americans die of heart disease every day. And heart disease affects everyone. It’s not a matter of if an individual or a loved one will be impacted but when. The affiliated heart and vascular specialists at Memorial Hermann Southeast, supported by a team of dedicated operating room nurses, ICU nurses, technicians, perfusionists, nurse practitioners, office managers and staff, provide a wide spectrum of heart care, from prevention to treatment to recovery, all delivered in a convenient, personalized setting. Memorial Hermann Southeast boasts the latest technologies, including three state-of-the-art catheterization (cath) labs, two hybrid operatingendovascular suites, a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CV-ICU) and a dedicated cardiac rehabilitation facility. “With the capabilities we have in place here, we can do almost anything
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except perform heart transplants,” says affiliated interventional cardiologist Nisheeth Goel, MD, adding that transplants are performed at the Center for Advanced Heart Failure at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. Heart Attack Care, 24/7 In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. Memorial Hermann Southeast is an accredited Chest Pain Center and a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) hospital through The Joint Commission, making it a premier center for the treatment of heart attack. “We have cardiologists on standby 24/7,” says Dr. Grover. “So we can take patients to our catheterization lab, where they can receive fast intervention to clear blockages and to relieve heart attack symptoms any time of the day.” Should the need arise, Memorial Hermann Southeast affiliated surgeons have access to advanced heart devices including the world’s smallest heart
pump that provides safe and effective hemodynamic support in elective and urgent high-risk PCI for a broad range of patients with complex coronary artery disease, hemodynamic compromise and comorbidities. Minimally Invasive Heart Procedures Some heart procedures, which traditionally required open heart surgery, are now being performed using minimally invasive techniques. For the patient, this typically means less pain and a much faster recovery. One such procedure is transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), an innovative treatment for patients with severe aortic valve disease, offered at Memorial Hermann Southeast. “TAVR uses catheters in blood vessels to replace the aortic valve with a specially designed artificial valve,” says affiliated structural/interventional cardiologist Nadish Garg, MD. “The procedure is becoming increasingly common.
