The Cardiology Institute provides comprehensive private cardiology services in three locations on the North Shore, Grafton and Howick, Auckland. Our highly trained team of North Shore Hospital-based cardiologists cover all aspects of general and preventive cardiology, multi-modality imaging (imaging the heart with different techniques, ultrasound, CT and MRI), electrophysiology (heart rhythm disorders) and cardiovascular intervention (angioplasty and stenting).
Our group is committed to prompt provision of the following services:
- General cardiology consultations including cardiovascular risk assessment
- Assessment and treatment of high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms and palpitations, valvular heart disease (abnormal heart valves) and heart failure.
- Rest and exercise ECGs (exercise treadmills)
- Holter and Event monitoring
- Ambulatory blood pressure recording (for the diagnosis and asessement of hypertension)
- Resting and Stress Echocardiography
- Transoesophageal Echocardiography*
- CT Coronary angiography and coronary calcium score testing*
- Cardiac MRI*
- Coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty and stenting)*
- Renal angiography and stenting*
- Cardioversion*
- Electrophysiology studies (abnormal heart rhythm investigations) and Radio Frequency Ablations (invasive treatment of abnormal rhythms)*
- Pacemaker implantation*.
All procedures are done in our custom-fitted rooms, except those in asterisks.
Meet our team here.
What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels. Your heart consists of four chambers, which are responsible for pumping blood to your lungs and then the rest of your body. The study of the heart includes the heart muscle (the myocardium), the valves within the heart between the chambers, the blood vessels that supply blood (and hence oxygen and nutrients) to the heart muscle, and the electrical system of the heart which is what controls the heart rate.
