Heart & Vascular Care

Your heart is your body’s engine. Keep it healthy with innovative, complete care from cardiologists and vascular specialists at UNC Health. You’ll benefit from research-driven diagnoses and treatments focused on restoring your heart and vascular health.

Choose a UNC Health adult or pediatric heart and vascular doctor to keep you and your family healthy.

Screening & Diagnosis

Get advanced screenings, tests, and diagnostic tools for your cardiovascular system at UNC Health:

• Heart imaging – Shows your heart’s valves, structure, and movement with angiograms, echocardiograms and cardiac catheterization
• Heart stress tests – Reveal your heart’s strength with exercise stress tests, nuclear stress tests, or stress echocardiograms
• Heart rhythm tests – Detect abnormalities in your heart rhythm with heartbeat monitoring, EKG, or electrophysiology studies
• Heart failure monitoring – Checks your blood pressure and other vital signs regularly to help you prevent serious heart injuries
• Vascular tests – Assess the health of your blood vessels with Doppler ultrasound or pulse volume recording

Conditions We Treat

Find expert cardiovascular care at UNC Health for conditions such as:

• Chest pain (angina)
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart attack
• Heart disease
• Heart failure
• Heart murmur
• Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmia), including atrial fibrillation
• High blood pressure
• Peripheral artery disease (PAD)
• Stroke

Treatment

Stay close to home for heart and vascular treatment at UNC Health, offering advanced and innovative care such as:

• Angioplasty – Opens narrowed or blocked arteries
• Aneurysm repair – Fixes a weakened spot in an artery
• Cardiac rehabilitation – Teaches you lifestyle changes after a major heart event
• Heart failure clinic, including electrophysiology and ventricular assistance
• Heart surgery, including heart transplant
• Heart valve and heart defect treatment
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Varicose vein treatment
• Vascular stenting

UNC Health’s Heart & Vascular Excellence

Work with a nationally recognized team of experts at UNC Health, known for outstanding heart and vascular care in the nation:

• UNC Medical Center has received a Mission: Lifeline Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, which is given to organizations with exceptional emergency heart care that improves lives
• UNC Medical Center has accreditation as a Chest Pain Center with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), which provides rapid, effective treatment to emergency patients with chest pain or heart attack symptoms