Expert Heart Care, Close to Home

The tests you'll need to diagnose your heart disease depend on what condition your physician diagnoses. No matter what type of heart disease you have, your physician at will likely perform a physical exam and ask about your personal and family medical history before doing any tests.

Diagnostic Stress Testing (Inpatient and Outpatient)

AdventHealth Hendersonville, offers a wide variety of diagnostic tests. These tests are extremely valuable in determining the health of your heart. They include:

• Basic exercise stress test
• Transthoracic echocardiogram (includes Transthoracic Echo, Color Flow Study, and Cardiac Doppler)
• Stress echocardiogram
• Dobutamine stress echocardiogram
• Nuclear stress cardiolite
• Pharmacological nuclear stress cardiolite (including Lexiscan and Dobutamine)
• 24 / 48 Holter, Zio, and 30-day cardiac rhythm event monitors

Cardiac rehabilitation — also called cardiac rehab — is a customized program of exercise and education. Cardiac rehabilitation is designed to help you recover from a heart attack, other forms of heart disease or surgery to treat heart disease. Cardiac rehabilitation is often divided into phases that involve monitored exercise, nutritional counseling, emotional support, and support and education about lifestyle changes to reduce your risks of heart problems. The goals of cardiac rehabilitation are to help you regain strength, to prevent your condition from worsening and to reduce your risk of future heart problems. Cardiac rehabilitation programs increase your chances of survival. Both the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology recommend cardiac rehabilitation programs.

Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

A staff of physiologists, advanced cardiac life support nurses, certified respiratory therapists, registered dietitians and behavioral health professionals work together to provide telemetry-monitored exercise, daily education sessions, dietary counseling, consultations with psychologists and cholesterol monitoring.

These services are available Monday, Wednesday and Friday for one hour and require a physician's referral.

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation helps heart patients to recover quickly and to improve their overall physical, mental and social well being. The goal is to stabilize, slow or even reverse the progression of cardiovascular disease, thereby reducing the risk of heart disease, a cardiac event or death. The cardiac rehabilitation programs at AdventHealth Hendersonville address:

• Stable Angina
• Post CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting)
• Post MI (myocardial infarction)
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Heart Valve Repair/Replacement
• PTCA or Coronary Stent (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty)
• Heart or Heart-Lung Transplant

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an integral part of the clinical management and health maintenance of patients with chronic respiratory disease who are symptomatic or continue to have decreased pulmonary function. The pulmonary rehabilitation services at AdventHealth Hendersonville address:

• COPD
• Sarcoidosis
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Simple Chronic Bronchitis
• Mucopurulent Chronic Bronchitis
• Obstructive Chronic Bronchitis
• Other Emphysema
• Asthma
• Bronchiectasis
• Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis
• Asbestosis
• Chronic Respiratory Conditions due to Fumes and Vapors
• Pneumoconiosis
• Post Inflammatory Pulmonary Fibrosis