Cardiology: Adult and Child
A cardiologist is a specialist who can treat chest pain, high blood pressure and heart failure, problems with your heart valves, blood vessels and other heart and vascular issues.
A heart check-up will help your doctor assess your risk for developing heart disease and recommend lifestyle changes or medications to help prevent it. Even if you feel healthy, getting regular heart check-ups is essential. Many forms of heart disease have no symptoms until they have caused significant damage.
Our cardiologist is a certified echocardiologist and angiologist (angiology is the medical speciality concerned with the functioning and diseases of the lymphatic and circulatory systems, which include veins, arteries, and small blood vessels (microcirculation). Echocardiology is the science of using sound waves to view the heart and its functionalities.
Our cardiology clinics are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But services are available on other days, especially on emergencies. Your cardiology may request you carry out the following Investigations.
Blood investigations:
> Renal function test
> Liver function test
> Lipid profile
> D dimer
> Troponin T
> Others include: Total blood count, urinalysis, stool analysis.