Heart Care
Heart care at San Angelo Community Medical Center focuses on the functions and disorders of the heart and its connected circulatory system. According to the American Heart Association, 84 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, affecting blood flow throughout the body. Cardiovascular disease can lead to heart attacks, strokes or other serious complications.
Taking good care of your heart can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease that leads to a heart attack, stroke or other serious complications. Our cardiac care teams provide complete heart care services - from helping you create a heart-healthy lifestyle to performing potentially lifesaving procedures in emergency situations.
The size of our program and our affiliations with the Community Medical Associates and the Community Health Club of San Angelo allows for quality assurance in every aspect of care, technology, personnel, patient handling, procedures, follow-up care and rehabilitation.
Our awards:
- The only area facility to have achieved 100 percent compliance in exceeding the national door-to-balloon time goal of 90 minutes or less for a ninth consecutive year. Our rapid-response care gives heart attack patients a better chance to survive.
- Recognized as first and only accredited Chest Pain Center in Concho Valley
- Accredited in Heart Failure by the American College of Cardiology
Practicing Physicians
Robert Bennett, M.D.*, cardiac and thoracic surgeon - (325) 245-4501
Michael Blanc, M.D.*, interventional cardiologist - (325) 245-4501
Milton Leon, M.D., Ph.D.**, interventional cardiologist - (325) 944-1240
Gregson Oghafua, M.D.**, cardiologist - (325) 944-1240
Jack Sun, D.O.*, interventional cardiologist - (325) 245-4501
Senthil Thambidorai, M.D.*, cardiac electrophysiologist - (325) 245-4501
* - Member of the Medical Staff at San Angelo Community Medical Center
** - Independent Member of the Medical Staff at San Angelo Community Medical Center
Our services:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
- Angiography
- Anticoagulation Clinic
- Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Testing
- Cardiac Catheterization Lab
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardiac Stress Test
- Cardiac Screening and Evaluation
- Carotid artery stenting
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma Management
- Coronary and peripheral artery interventions
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization and peripheral
- Dobutamine Stress Test
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Electrophysiology
- Cardioversion
- Cryoablation
- Radiofrequency (RF) Ablation
- Endoscopic Vein Harvesting
- Heart Bypass Surgery
- Heart valve repair and replacement
- Holter Monitoring - 24 & 48 hour
- Internal cardiac defibrillator (ICD)
- Lung and vascular surgery
- Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Screening
- Placement of pacemakers
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Signal Average Electrocardiogram (SAE)
- Sleep Studies
- Stress Echocardiogram
- Thallium Cardiac Stress Test
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm stents
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Venous Stenting
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