It's all here at Baptist Heart. That's because Baptist Heart is your home for complete heart and vascular care. It's everything you need to keep your heart and blood vessels healthy - from basic tests to lifesaving surgeries to rehab - without having to travel out of state.
What do our patients have to say? Listen to personal accounts of our patients' lifesaving heart procedures, including two of the nation's first TAVR patients and Mississippi's first-ever robotic mitral valve repair patient.Click to hear their stories for yourself. Robotic mitral valve repair. TAVR.
What do our patients have to say? Listen to personal accounts of our patients' lifesaving heart procedures, including two of the nation's first TAVR patients and Mississippi's first-ever robotic mitral valve repair patient.Click to hear their stories for yourself. Robotic mitral valve repair. TAVR.
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Baptist Heart is more than a cardiology clinic. Baptist Heart is your home for complete heart and vascular care. That's because Baptist Heart provides such a wide range of services, technology, and expertise to keep your heart and your blood vessels healthy.
From preventative care and maintenance, to diagnostic tests, to outpatient and inpatient surgical procedures, and rehabilitation to get you back on your feet - you'll find it all right here at Baptist Heart.If you have a heart procedure in your future, it's normal to feel anxious about it. Often the best way to calm that anxiety, or even just satisfy a curious mind, is to simply learn as much as you can, so you don't have to face the unknown.
From preventative care and maintenance, to diagnostic tests, to outpatient and inpatient surgical procedures, and rehabilitation to get you back on your feet - you'll find it all right here at Baptist Heart.If you have a heart procedure in your future, it's normal to feel anxious about it. Often the best way to calm that anxiety, or even just satisfy a curious mind, is to simply learn as much as you can, so you don't have to face the unknown.
The physicians of Baptist Heart are part of Mississippi's first name in heart care - Baptist. So our cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons embody the spirit of healing and compassion that defines the Baptist family: Leaders in healthcare, followers in faith. Baptist Heart offers specialists in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology, as well as surgeons who specialize in cardiovascular and peripheral vascular procedures.
The screening is a CT Scan of the heart to detect calcium deposits in coronary arteries. The presence of calcium deposits correlates directly to coronary plaque and risk of coronary disease. You will also complete a brief heart risk assessment questionnaire. Those who have a history of heart disease such as heart attack, stroke, open heart surgery, coronary artery stents, pacemaker, ICD, or other known heart disease.
And/or any of the following risk factors: smoking, overweight, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high glucose. If you could be pregnant, this test is not recommended. People with coronary artery stents, pacemakers, or metal in the left side of the chest from previous surgery are excluded from the CT scan (calcium score) portion of the screening.
Age 50 with one or more of the following risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, heart disease, strong family history of vascular disease. A cardiac sonographer or nurse with specialized cardiac training will place a small, hand-held device, called a transducer, on several points of your neck and abdomen.
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