Heart Care Services
Columbus Clinic
At the Columbus Clinic, our providers treat all aspects of adult cardiology including:
- Diagnosis and Treatment of adult heart disease
- Exercise Stress Test
- Echocardiogram (ECHO)
- Tilt Testing
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
- Holter Monitoring
- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
- Stents
- Implantable Loop recorders
St. Francis Heart Hospital
St. Francis Heart Hospital, an affiliate of Emory Cardiothoracic Surgery, is the only hospital in the Chattahoochee Valley that provides a full range of cardiac surgeries, including open-heart surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting or CABG) and heart valve replacement. Among the cardiac surgical procedures provided by physicians at Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute at St. Francis are:
- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
- Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (OPCAB)
- Aortic Valve Replacement or Repair
- Mitral Valve Replacement or Repair
- Repair of Ventricle Aneurysm
- Tricuspid Valve Replacement or Repair
- Repair of Aortic Aneurysm
- Repair of Aortic Dissection
- Repair of Atrial Septal Defect
- Pulmonary Embolism
Thoracic surgical procedures performed at St. Francis-Emory Healthcare include:
- Surgical treatment of lung cancer
- Surgical diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lung, diaphragm, chest and mediastinum
- Surgical treatment of diseases of the esophagus
Specific thoracic surgical procedures include:
- Bronchoscopy
- Mediastinoscopy
- Thorascopy
- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- Lobectomy
- Pneumonectomy
- Decortication of Lung
- Drainage of Empyema
- Resection of Chest Wall Tumors
- Surgery of Diaphragm
- Surgery Esophagus
