Cardiovascular Diseases in Florida

Overview

The Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic in Florida has 14 staff doctors committed to providing quality care to patients with disorders of the heart, arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels. Our patient care is supported by many laboratories, sub-subspecialty clinics and preventive health programs.

The field of cardiology and vascular medicine is dynamic — new diagnostic techniques, drugs and interventions are continuously being introduced. Division members are organized into a variety of subspecialty groups, each of which focus on a particular segment of cardiology or vascular medicine. Their specific expertise is a resource for everyone, enabling the entire division to stay at the leading edge of change in cardiology and vascular medicine.

The physicians in cardiology and vascular medicine work closely with a variety of other groups to provide care for patients, including:

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Internal Medicine subspecialties, especially:
  • Critical Care
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endocrinology (especially diabetes specialists)
  • Nephrology & Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Pulmonary Medicine
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Radiology/Vascular Radiology
  • Cerebrovascular angiography and interventions
  • Cardiac computed tomography (CT)
  • Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Gated radionuclide angiograms
  • Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Tomographic nuclear scans
  • Vascular angiography and interventions
  • Vascular ultrasound
• Vascular Surgery
• Radiation Oncology (coronary brachytherapy)