Cardiovascular Services

We perform thousands of leading-edge heart and vascular procedures each year. That’s why we rely on a number of state-of-the-art technologies to test and diagnose your condition including:

• 3-D EP mapping
• Stress testing
• Angiography
• Arterial testing
• Echocardiography and ultrasonography
• Electrophysiology (EP) studies
• Exercise nuclear stress testing
• Heart biopsy
• Ambulatory monitoring
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) evaluation

Our cardiovascular team provides treatments for common to complex heart and vascular conditions. The Heart and Vascular Institute is a premiere cardiovascular center. We’re focused on offering you and your family the latest and most innovative treatments as a result of cutting-edge research.

We constantly strive to find better treatment options to counter the negative effects of cardiovascular disease. Our cardiovascular team works collaboratively applying a multidisciplinary approach to make sure each and every patient receives comprehensive care from our highly-trained specialists and subspecialists.

We’re at the forefront of vascular care. We provide many nonsurgical treatments. For example, we help many patients with atrial fibrillation using the LARIAT® procedure. This minimally invasive procedure, which ties off the heart’s left atrial appendage, helps to reduce the risk of stroke.

Routinely, we provide the most advanced heart surgeries in South Texas. For those who are unable to undergo open-heart surgery or are at risk for a surgical aortic valve replacement, we’re often able to help those patients with a procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). This procedure replaces a narrowed aortic valve that doesn’t open properly.

Our medical and surgical specialists provide a wide range of services for patients who need everything from advanced endoscopy procedures to open-heart surgery. We provide common to complex cardiovascular care. After a full review of your medical history, test results and a comprehensive exam, we determine the best treatment options for your unique, heart or vascular condition.

• Ildiko Agoston, MD
• Shah Ahmed, MD
• Ahmed A Almomani, MD
• Prasantha Bathini, MD
• Reza Behrouz, DO
• Lee Birnbaum, MD
• John Calhoon, MD
• Andrea Carpenter, MD
• Ripa Chakravorty, MD
• Robert Chilton, DO
• Maria Cortez, MD
• Mark Davies, MD
• Daniel De Armond, MD
• John Erikson, MD
• Marc Feldman, MD
• Patrick Glasow, MD
• Janet Hays, MD
• Dawn S. Hui, MD
• Lalithapriya Jayakumar, MD
• Scott Johnson, MD
• Ghazwan Kroma, MD
• Chandrasekhar Kunavarapu, MD
• Michael Kwan, MD
• Jorge Lopera, MD
• Fernando Lopez, MD
• Eduardo Macias Enriquez, MD
• Elaine Maldonado, MD
• Anjlee Mehta, MD
• Otto Miller, MD
• Dimitrios Miserlis, MD
• Christopher Mitromaras, MD
• Joseph Murgo, MD
• Steven Neish, MD
• Manoj Panday, MD
• Son Pham, MD
• Jayasree Pillarisetti, MD
• Lori Pounds, MD
• Kit Powers, MD
• Anand Prasad, MD
• Kent Rohweder, MD
• Edward Sako, MD
• Paula Shireman, MD
• Matthew Sideman, MD
• Kenneth Stone, MD
• Rajeev Suri, MD
• Steve Tsai, MD