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Prevent A Heart Attack

Most people who get a heart attack have risk factors.
Risk factors include :
  • High blood pressure
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Smoking
  • High cholesterol
  • Family members with heart disease

Most people who have a heart attack do not have warning symptoms and therefore if you have risk factors, call us for our

Heart Attack Prevention Program

Do you have symptoms of heart disease?

  • chest discomfort
  • shortness of breath
  • difficulty in breathing
  • shortness of breath
  • abnormally strong or fast heart beat

We have a complete range of diagnostic tests using the latest technology that will provide answers to your symptoms in a safe and accurate manner.

Is high blood pressure troubling you?

If you have high blood pressure and are not sure whether it is due to anxiety or whether your blood pressure is well controlled, we will be able to help you achieve optimal blood pressure control with our blood pressure assessment and management program.

Range of diagnostic heart services

  • Live 3D Echocardiography with Colour Doppler
    Using the latest ultrasound technology to image the heart in a safe and painless manner providing information on heart size, blood flow in the heart, heart pump function and condition of heart valves

  • Coronary CT Angiogram
    Using the latest world’s first intelligent scanner that can adapt to your individual needs
    Highest resolution with clearer pictures
    (Highest Spatial resolution and highest isotropic resolution )
    Elimination of unnecessary radiation dosage
    Reducing radiation dose up to 68%

  • 24Hr Holter Monitoring
    For those with abnormal heart rhthyms, the continuous recorder allows the nature of the heart problem to be diagnosed with the latest monitoring devices which are small and convenient

  • 24Hr Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
    If you are not sure whether you really have high blood pressure or whether your blood pressure is optimally controlled , our accurate and convenient ambulatory blood pressure monitor will provide the answer

Coronary CT Angiography (CTA)

  • Prevent the “” from striking your loved ones.
    Do you know that most heat attacks occur without warning symptoms. We bring you the the latest world’s first intelligent scanner that can adapt to your individual needs

  • Safe and Accurate
    Have your heart arteries visualized using the newest 4 Dimensional CT scanner that has the highest resolution (Highest Spatial resolution and highest isotropic resolution ) with elimination of unnecessary radiation dosage and reduction of radiation dose by up to 68%

  • Painless and within seconds
    Visualise your heart structures or heart arteries in seconds to detect abnormal heart problems or vessel blockage (plaque) . Coronary CTA is a non-invasive procedure requiring no hospitalization. No fasting is required as well. Another important difference would be that the Coronary CTA determines the type of plaque, soft or hard. This would determine if the disease can be treated medically or if stents or surgery are required.

  • Coronary CTA may be useful in the following situations:

    • Angina (chest pain)
    • Multiple risk factors for heart disease
    • Known heart disease (assess effects of treatment)
    • Previous angioplasty or stenting
    • Previous Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) Evaluate suitability of internal mamary artery evaluation (pre-CABG)
    • Congenital heart disease (adult & paediatric)

– First publication of results in the world

Using a new technique, our doctors have been able to open heart arteries even with complex and difficult blockage of the heart arteries of the heart through a small 2 mm skin opening with excellent results. The procedure uses the latest imaging technology that enables our doctors to study the nature and extent of the blocked arteries in great detail before opening the blocked arteries. The procedure is done under local anaesthesia and the patient does not require to fast and on the average only needs to stay in hospital for one night . This new angioplasty and stenting technique which is safe and effective even for suitable patients with complex and severe disease of the heart arteries. Our doctors are the first to publish the results of this new technique in a major scientific medical journal.

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