Welcome to the new age of cardiac diagnostic imaging. CVISD has collaborated with Image One and CT Heart Scan to bring you a new state-of-the-art CT scanner that can scan your entire heart and look for plaque build up and blockages in your coronary arteries. This allows your cardiologist to do an angiogram noninvasively and [...]
57 year old male with stroke due to a small hole in the heart or Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) successfully closed in 30 minutes with minimally invasive surgery and discharged next morning by Dr. Mehran Moussavian. What is Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)? A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a hole in the heart that didn't [...]
Successful WATCHMAN Implant in a patient with atrial fibrillation completed in 35 minutes by Dr. Mehran Moussavian. What is The WATCHMAN Implant? The WATCHMAN Implant is a minimally invasive, one-time procedure designed to reduce the risk of strokes that originate in the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA). The WATCHMAN is a permanent implant about the size [...]
What is Myocardial Infarction (MI)? A heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (MI) occurs when one of the arteries that supplies the heart muscle becomes blocked. Blockage may be caused by spasm of the artery or by atherosclerosis with acute clot formation. Congratulations to Dr. Mehran Moussavian for being in the top 90th percentile at Sharp, and in the nation for the [...]
Congratulations to Sharp Chula Vista on performing their first MitraClip™ and starting the program. Special thanks to Dr. Moussavian, Dr. Mumtaz, Dr. Gollapudi, and Dr. Cox for the help and support! What is MitraClip™? MitraClip™ is a simple procedure to fix your mitral valve. During the procedure, doctors access the mitral valve with a thin [...]