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Heart & Veins Cork

National leaders in Cardiovascular care

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Heart and Vascular Centre, 2nd Floor, Citygate, Mahon, Cork, T12 K199 021 601 3258 corkcardiology@materprivate.ie

Please note a referral letter is required before an appointment can be confirmed.

 

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Our centre

The Heart & Vascular Centre at Mater Private Cork provides a comprehensive range of invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular services. 

Our clinical expertise and the innovative technologies we use support our mission to improve the health and well-being of the patients we are privileged to care for. 

Patient care is managed by a multi-disciplinary team of world-class experts and specialists covering the full spectrum of cardiac conditions.  

Our team of consultants also offer a high degree of sub-specialisation expertise to treat the widest range of heart problems. This ensures patients receive the most comprehensive and up-to-date range of diagnostic and therapeutic options, individually tailored to their specific needs. 

Urgent cardiac care

We offer a service for patients experiencing urgent cardiac symptoms. Call 021 601 3326 to speak to one of our cardiac nurse specialists. Service available by appointment only.

Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm

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Our services

Medical Conditions

What we offer

  • Acute Myocardial Infarction 
  • Cardioembolic Stroke Disease
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiovascular Disease Screening and Risk Factor Management
  • Carotid, Aortic and Supra – Aortic Vessel Disease 
  • Chest Pain / Acute Coronary Syndromes 
  • Clinical Trials and Medical Device Research 
  • Congestive Heart Failure 
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Electrophysiology
  • Grown–Up Congenital Heart Disease
  • Palpitations and Arrhythmia 
  • Peripheral Vascular Disease
  • Structural and Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Sudden Cardiac Death Screening 
  • Sudden Cardiac Death and Cardiac Arrest
  • Valvular Heart Disease 
  • Venous Thromboembolic Disease 
  • Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Cardiac-Event Recorder
  • Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy
  • Cardioversion
  • Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE)
  • Echocardiography (Echo)
  • Holter Monitor
  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
  • Implantable Loop Recorder
  • Pacemaker
  • Transoesophageal Echo
  • Treadmill Stress Test (EST)
  • Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Obstruction 
  • Cardiac Catheterization 
  • Catheter-based Therapies for Peripheral Arterial Disease 
  • Catheter-based Therapies for Obstructive Venous and Pulmonary Embolic Disease 
  • Catheter-based Therapies for Valvular Heart Disease 
  • Catheter-based Therapies for Paravalvular Leak 
  • Catheter-based Therapies for Hypertension 
  • Elective Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation (AF) 
  • Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion 
  • Mitral and Aortic Valvuloplasty 
  • Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement 
  • Percutaneous Therapies for Peripheral Arterial and Venous Obstructive Disease 
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (“stenting”) 
  • Percutaneous Closure of Intracardiac Defects such as ASD/VSD/PDA/PFO

In addition to the above, more complex procedures are also available at Mater Private Heart & Vascular Centre in Dublin.  

Should a patient in Mater Private Cork require such procedures, these can be carried out by their Cork physician with the support of the Cardiology team at Mater Private Dublin. All pre – and post – procedural care will be carried out at Mater Private Cork. 

We would like to remind GPs that we can only accept patients with a GP referral for our cardiac service. We are unable to accept walk-in patients who do not have a GP referral.  

You can refer your patients to our Urgent Cardiac Care service, which is available Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. 

We accept any urgent GP referral for same day review patients and new patients.

Outside Urgent Cardiac Care hours and on weekends, we offer a 24-7 cardiology consultant on call cover for the hospital. We can facilitate admissions if the patient can be transported to the hospital by a family member or friend. Unfortunately, we do not offer an ambulance service.

If your patient is experiencing stable cardiac symptoms, you can contact the Director of Nursing/Assistant Director of Nursing/Senior Nurse Manager to request an admission. Your request will be discussed with consultant on call and accepted if appropriate.

For patients with active chest pain, if a pre-hospital ECG shows STEMI the National Primary PCI reperfusion protocol should be followed, and the ambulance directed to the regional PCI centre, Cork University Hospital.

Patients with chest pain, suspected cardiac breathlessness, heart failure, or arrhythmia can be seen (patients with private health insurance cover, or on a self-pay basis).

Our service is not suitable for the following patients, and we advise that patients should attend another hospital facility instead:

  • Patients who need ventilation/ICU level care;
  • Patients with acute neurology symptoms or suspected stroke admissions (even if they are patients of our cardiology service). 

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