The Heart Group (previously Auckland Heart Group) provides a totally integrated cardiac service including the following:
- Ambulatory blood pressure and Holter monitoring
- Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty (BAV)
- Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty (BMV)
- Cardiac MRI
- Cardiology consultation - including ischaemic and valvular heart disease, risk factor assessment, hypertension, arrhythmias and heart failure
- Children’s Heart Specialists
- Conventional Coronary Angiography
- Coronary Angioplasty/ Stenting (PCI)
- Coronary Angioplasty including drug eluting stents
- Coronary Care Unit
- Echocardiogram (ECG) - Resting
- Electrophysiology (EP) studies and Radio Frequency Ablations (RFAs)
- Exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography
- Exercise treadmill testing
- Holter/ Event Moniter
- Multislice CT Coronary Angiography
- Nuclear myocardial perfusion scans
- Pacemaker implantation
- Percutaneous closure of Atrial Septal Defects (ASDs) and Patent Forman Ovale (PFO)
- Renal and Carotid Stenting
- Transoesophageal echocardiography
- Vascular Ultrasound (renal, carotid and abdominal aorta)
The Heart Group have 6 clinics around Auckland for treadmill testing and consultation:
CENTRAL 1 Gilgit Road
NORTH Southern Cross Hospital - North Harbour
EAST EastMed
WEST Totara Health Services
SOUTH Ormiston Hospital
Pukekohe Family Health Centre
NORTHLAND 167 Maunu Road
Angiography and angioplasty are performed at Intra at Mercy Hospital, Epsom.
Echocardiography is provided at:
- 1 Gilgit Road, Epsom
- Southern Cross Hospital - North Harbour, Glenfield
- Ormiston Hospital - Botany
- Totara Health Services - New Lynn
- Pukekohe Family Health Centre - Pukekohe
The Heart Group provides a Monday – Friday 8.00am – 5.00pm on-call service for GP’s, providing advice and assistance.
What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels. Your heart consists of 4 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.
