Auckland Heart Group

Details

Name :

Auckland Heart Group

Address  :

94 Mountain Road, Epsom

Town  :

Auckland

State  :

Auckland

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

1023

Phone  :

09 623 1020

Fax  :

09 623 2845

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Cardiology
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 155

Other Facilities

  • CT/MRI

Description

The Auckland Heart Group is New Zealands largest private cardiology group with extensive subspecialty expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of heart disease in children as well as in adults

Our seamless and comprehensive cardiac service can provide excellent care and advice in the areas of general and preventive cardiology such as hypertension high blood pressure and raised cholesterol through to the management of heart attack and its complications

Whether the problem is an asymptomatic heart murmur that may indicate significant valvular heart disease the need to differentiate benign palpitations from a serious arrhythmia the management of heart failure or investigation of chest pain that could be angina pectoris the Auckland Heart Group can help

We offer a caring and compassionate service allied with state of the art equipment and cardiologists who are among the best in their subspecialty fields

Mission Statement
To treat all patients with skill and compassion

To support referring specialists and general practitioners

To become New Zealands cardiovascular centre of excellence

To provide national leadership in consultative diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology

To embrace opportunities to improve cardiovascular health

Who We Are
New Zealands largest private cardiology group

We are New Zealands largest private cardiology group providing a comprehensive cardiac service with a full range of consultative diagnostic and therapeutic cardiological management
Comprehensive cardiology package

We offer a complete cardiology assessment including exercise treadmill testing holter and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring echocardiography exercise and dobutamine stress echo transoesophageal echo nuclear myocardial perfusion scans cardiac magnetic resonance imaging MRI coronary angiography coronary angioplastystenting percutaneous coronary intervention PCI including drug eluting stents carotid and renal stenting and pacemaker implantation
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