How has Doylestowns Heart Center grown?
“Two years after my arrival, the Heart Center opened with the hope of treating 100 surgical patients in the first year. In just over three years, our surgeons have treated more than 1,000 heart patients. Today, complex procedures like angioplasty, cardiac ablations and advanced cardiac imaging are routinely performed at Doylestown Hospital. The quality of the physicians has lived up to the billing, and our outcomes have been spectacular. The community has embraced the program.” What breakthroughs are on the horizon? “In nuclear cardiology, we expect to be using new radioactive isotopes that will allow us to shorten testing time considerably. We are also developing techniques to assess the viability of heart muscle, to distinguish scar tissue from hibernating muscle.
