Georgia Heart Institute is a comprehensive cardiovascular program, offering patients access to specialty-trained cardiologists, nationally renowned surgeons, advanced technology, leading research and care teams that are dedicated to helping you on your heart health journey.
Whether you need preventative care and early monitoring because you have some of the risk factors for heart disease or advanced care for a more complex condition, Georgia Heart Institute offers some of the region’s most cutting-edge treatments in a single program that is designed to help you through every step of the process.
Heart Care in Cumming
Our heart doctors and specialized staff in Cumming offer a wide range of services to help keep your heart healthy.
- Evaluations of chest pain, murmurs, palpitations and syncope
- Patient education
- Long-term disease management (e.g. hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease and more)
- Preventative cardiology
- Women’s Heart & Vascular Care
Learn more about general cardiology.
- Blood Pressure checks
- Electrocardiogram (EKG) – at this location, an EKG can only be ordered by a Georgia Heart Institute provider
- Holter & Event Monitor (placement/monitoring)
- Coumadin/Anticoagulant Clinic (screenings and medication adjustments) – at this location, only Georgia Heart Institute patients have access to this clinic
- Comprehensive Blood Tests
- Total Cholesterol, LDL, HDL, Triglycerides, non-HDL
- High-sensitivity C-reactive protein, Lipoprotein, Plasma ceramides, Natriuretic peptides, Troponin T
- Echo/Vascular Testing
- Cardiac
- Stress Echo
- Dobutamine Stress Echo
- Transthoracic Echo (TTE)
- Transthoracic Echo (TTE) with Bubble Study
- Vascular
- Aorta IVC Iliac Complete
- Arterial Duplex Scan/ includes:
- Ankle Brachial Index (ABI)
- Scan to rule out pseudoaneurysm
- Abdominal Ultrasound (to rule out abdominal aortic aneurysm)
- Venous Duplex Scan with/with out reflux
- Carotid Duplex Scan
- Ankle Brachial Index Screening
- Stress Ankle Brachial Index (lower extremity)
- Renal Artery Duplex
- Aorta Ultrasound
- Nuclear Testing
- Nuclear Exercise Treadmill Stress Test
- Dobutamine Stress Test
- Lexiscan
- Pulse Volume Recording (with treadmill exercise)
- Cardiac
Our program utilizes physical activity, culinary medicine, advanced screenings and cutting-edge treatments to help patients with:
- Managing heart disease risk factors, including lipids
- Identifying diseases in their earliest most treatable stages
- Improving quality of life and outcomes after a cardiac event or disease diagnosis
With specialized training to detect and treat irregular heart rhythms, our electrophysiologists at Georgia Heart Institute offer some of the most advanced expertise available in the region for diagnosing and treating arrhythmias.
Whether you are in the earlier stages of your diagnosis or need ongoing monitoring for a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), our electrophysiologists are here to keep your heart healthy.
Our Cumming location offers access to our Heart Failure Center through our fellowship-trained Advanced Heart Failure & Heart Transplant physicians. If you have heart failure, our specialized physicians can manage your disease and coordinate your care, ensuring better outcomes for your condition. Contact our center today or one of our heart failure specialists to get started.
If it turns out you need more intensive treatment for an advanced condition, Georgia Heart Institute has advanced specialists at our offices throughout the region, as well as access to hospital services, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery and minimally invasive interventions in Gainesville and Braselton. If you need more advanced treatment, our office in Cumming is completely integrated with our other specialists at Georgia Heart Institute, keeping all facets of your care connected back to your non-invasive cardiologist.
