Our Services

The Ottawa Cardiovascular Centre and Cardiovascular Centre East provide prompt access to comprehensive cardiovascular consultation, diagnosis and follow up. We provide assessment for all aspects of general cardiology including:

• Chest pain assessment
• Assessment and management of palpitation and syncope
• Assessment and management of cardiac murmurs
• Assessment of cardiovascular risk, including:
  - Assessment and management of hypertension
  - Assessment and management of hyperlipidemia
• Assessment and management of the post myocardial infarction patient
• Assessment and management of congestive heart failure
• Assessment and management of atrial fibrillation
• Assessment and management of long-term pacemaker follow up
• Assessment and management of valvular heart disease

We provide a full array of cardiac testing to support our mission. These include:

• Chest Pain Assessment Tool
• Stress Testing
• Echo Doppler
• Stress Echocardiography
• Stress Nuclear Testing
• Persantine Nuclear Testing
• Holter Monitoring
• Cardiac Loop (Event) Recording
• Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

For a description of these diagnostic tests please click on the links above.

In addition Drs. Niznick, Quinn and Chamoun carry out cardiac catheterization at the Ottawa Heart Institute.

For a description of invasive cardiovascular investigations carried out by our cardiologist please click on the appropriate link:

• Cardiac Catheterization

For a description of other invasive cardiovascular procedures and cardiac surgical interventions click on the appropriate link:

• Coronary Angioplasty
• Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery