Cardiology Services

University Medical Center brings leading edge heart care with the latest advances in the prevention and treatment of heart and cardiovascular disease. As an academic medical center, our doctors are leaders in their field and educators at The University of Arizona College of Medicine and are consistently recognized by "Best Doctors in Americas." U.S.News & World Report consistently ranks UMC among the top hospitals inf the U.S. for heart care and heart surgery and Thomson Healthcare named UMC one of the top 100 hospitals for cardiovascular care.

The UMC Heart Program: 

• Treatment of adult and pediatric vascular and cardiac pulmonary disease
  
  
• Home of CardioWest^tm, the first FDA-approved artificial heart.
  
  
• Supported by Southern Arizona's only Level 1 Trauma Center
  
  
• Medically supervised on-site Health & Wellness Center offers cardiac rehabilitation and prevention programs
  
  
• Diagnostic Cardiology performs a variety of testing procedures, which are interpreted and correlated with clinical data to arrive at the diagnosis. Some tests are also performed in UMC Nuclear Medicine.
  
  
• Native American Cardiology Program at UMC
    
  
  
  
  
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• Cardiac Nuclear Exercise
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
• Catheter Ablation
• Dobutamine Stress ECHO
• Echocardiogram (ECHO)
• Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)
• Electrophysiology (EP)
• Exercise ECHO
• Exercise Treadmill Test (ETT)
• Holter Monitoring
• Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
• Myocardial Perfusion Scan
• Pacemaker
• Spirometry
• Thoracic Aortic Surgery Center at a Glance
• Thoracic Aortic Surgery Center at UMC (pdf)
• Tilt Test
• Transesophageal ECHO (TEE)

Besides diagnostic procedures, UMC performs numerous catheterization interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic surgeries and other tests, such as angiogram.

If you are interested in philanthropically supporting Cardiology Services at UMC, please CLICK HERE.

Sarver Heart Center

The Sarver Heart Center, a Center of Excellence at The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, includes more than 100 physicians and scientists who collaborate to prevent heart disease and stroke. Conducting the majority of cardiovascular research in Arizona, including the use of the artificial heart, the world-renowned Sarver Heart team finds innovative ways to improve treatments and develop cures that may prevent heart and vascular disease. See University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center.