The Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery is a highly specialized Institution dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of Heart Diseases. . Founded in 1966 by the Ministry of Public Health, directed from its foundation until 2004 by Dr. in Sciences Professor Alberto Hernández Cañero and from 2004 to date by Professor Dr. Lorenzo D. Llerena Rojas, is a center with high scientific-technical rigor with vast experience in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
This Institution provides its services in all areas of cardiology and has a department of Cardiovascular Surgery with more than 10,000 operations among which are: Myocardial Revascularization, Valve Replacements with biological and mechanical prostheses, reconstruction or plasty of the mitral and tricuspid valve, surgery of the ascending aorta, a department of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology that performs more than 2,000 coronary angiograms per year , more than 1,000 coronary intervention procedures, where mitral and pulmonary valvuloplasty, right catheterization, peripheral and renal artery angioplasties are also performed; an Arrhythmia and Pacemaker department where more than 1,000 pacemakers are implanted a year. Additionally, Automatic Defibrillator (ICD) implantations, Ventricular Resynchronization Therapy (multisite stimulation), Electrophysiological Studies and Radiofrequency Ablation of Arrhythmias and Accessory Pathways are performed. It has a Nuclear Medicine department where studies are carried out for the diagnosis and stratification of patients with ischemic heart disease, for the evaluation of myocardial viability, ventricular function and assessment of ventricular asynchrony with a view to performing cardiac resynchronization therapy, a Rehabilitation department with more than 25 years of experience in the prevention of cardiac diseases and rehabilitation ;n of the patient with cardiovascular disease.
The Institution offers its health services to foreign patients with affordable prices for Third World countries, where care is provided based on the clinical method that has gained national and international prestige. , not only for the technical and professional scientific quality, but for their reliability and ethics, prescribing the studies essential for an accurate diagnosis, free of profits at the expense of medical services. unnecessary discs.
In addition, other centers of recognized international prestige present Cardiovascular Surgery Services with a high scientific-technological level: Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, CIMEQ Hospital, Cardiocentro de Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba.
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