Cardiology

Dr. Osman Hospital-Maadi offers both inpatient and outpatient services that cover a wide range of medical and surgical specialties.

All the departments are staffed with highly experienced medical and support personnel providing accurate, reliable and fast test results needed to deliver quality care in a timely fashion.

Cardiology

Outpatient Clinical Cardiology Service

Detailed history and physical examination by the cardiologist for early detection and assessment of heart disease as well as to offer preventive cardiac advice.

Diagnostic Tests

Electrocardiogram (ECG), recording of the electrical waves from the heart to assess the heart rate, rhythm, heart wall thickness and chamber enlargement as well as for early detection of heart attacks.

Chest X-Ray

To assess heart size and to look for early signs of heart failure.

Outpatient Clinical Cardiology Service

  • Detailed history and physical examination by the cardiologist for early detection and assessment of heart disease as well as to offer preventive cardiac advice.

  • Diagnostic Tests

Electrocardiogram (ECG), recording of the electrical waves from the heart to assess the heart rate, rhythm, heart wall thickness and chamber enlargement as well as for early detection of heart attacks.

  • Chest X-Ray

To assess heart size and to look for early signs of heart failure.

  • Treadmill Exercise Test

You will be made to walk on a treadmill (moving belt). Your blood pressure, heart rate, and electrocardiogram are continually monitored and analyzed by the computer during the exercise. The machine will find out changes during higher workloads and is a sensitive test to detect early signs of heart disease especially heart attack. This test is conducted in the presence of a trained physician.

  • Echo Doppler test with color Doppler blood flow imaging

Using ultrasound your heart is imaged from various angles. Heart chambers, muscles, valves and blood vessels can all be seen on the video screen and measurements made.

  • Blood flow imaging is used to detect all normal and abnormal blood flow patterns inside heart chambers and blood vessels and to measure the velocity of blood flow for precise diagnosis of abnormalities.

  • Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU)

We have a state-of-the art intensive care unit with facilities for bed side and central monitoring of ECG, Blood Oxygen, Blood Pressure, Venous Pressure etc. The unit is staffed by some of the best trained nursing staff and fully trained doctors. The unit is fully equipped for artificial ventilation of patients with respiratory or cardiac failure and has facilities for temporary transvenous cardiac pacing.

  • In-patient Rooms

Private ward rooms also have facilities for bedside monitoring of ECG and blood oxygen saturation for sick patients.

  • Stress Echocardiography

Echocardiogram done while the heart contractility is simulated with special drugs. Very useful test to select patients for bypass surgery and to assess the benefit from treatment.