Making adjustments to your eating habits and being more active can make a positive impact on your health. But sometimes, even the healthiest among us face heart trouble. And age can also play a factor – as we get older, heart disease becomes more prevalent in both men and women. 

Whether you are aiming to prevent heart conditions that run in your family or have concerns regarding previous diagnosis of a heart condition, you can turn to the experts at USF Health for comprehensive heart care.

As the only academic medical center in Southwest Florida, our cardiology team is trained to care for patients with rare, complex cardiac conditions, and work collaborately specialists across a range of specialties, including all cardiovascular sub-specialty care, cardiovascular surgery, advanced heart failure, genetics, oncology, neurology, advanced imaging, anesthesiology and cardiac rehabilitation services.

Working together, these experts provide a comprehensive spectrum of care, from diagnostic testing and imaging to surgical interventions to invasive surgical procedures to heart transplants. 

Some of the many heart conditions we treat include:

• Angina
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Cardiomyopathy
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Valve Disease
• Hypertension
• Pericardial Disease
• Wolff Parkinson White
• Atrial Fibrillation (AF)
• High Cholesterol
• Palpitations
• Ventricular Tachycardia
• Atherosclerosis
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Mitral Regurgitation
• Supraventricular tachycardia
• Aortic Stenosis
• Heart Attack
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Diagnostic Tests: 

• Echocardiogram
• Stress TestingTEE (Transesophageal Echocardiogram)
• Cardiac MRI
• Cardiac CT
• Cardiac Genetics Testing

Treatments: 

• Heart Failure Therapies
• Ventrical Assist Devices
• Heart Transplantation
• Arrhythmia Ablation
• Angioplasty & Stenting Cardioversion
• Cardiac Catheterization
• AICD placement
• Biventricular Pacemaker
• Pacemaker Implementation
• Drug Infusion Services
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
• Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair