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Echo and nuclear stress testing appointments are available beginning at 7:30 a.m., vascular testing at 8 a.m., and office visit appointments at 8:30 am.
Cardiovascular Specialists of Central Maryland, a member of Johns Hopkins Regional Physicians, provide the full spectrum of personalized consultative and diagnostic cardiac care. Our office is conveniently located on the campus of Howard County General Hospital, in the Medical Pavilion.
To schedule an appointment with Cardiovascular Specialists of Central Maryland, please call our main number at 410-997-7979 and follow the prompts, or call our scheduling line at 443-276-6050.
Cardiovascular Specialists offers a full range of in-office adult consultative and follow-up care and cardiac diagnostic testing, as well as hospital-based interventional cardiac care and pacemaker and ICD implantation at area hospitals including Howard County General Hospital in Columbia and The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
We are located in the Medical Pavilion at Howard County on the campus of Howard County General Hospital. Access our location from Cedar Lane or from Hickory Ridge Road. Plentiful parking is available immediately in front of the building.
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Maryland Cardiovascular Specialists formed when several of the area’s top cardiovascular specialists joined forces, creating a comprehensive practice serving both cardiac and vascular needs.
Affiliated with Saint Agnes Healthcare, Maryland Cardiovascular Specialists offers patients everything from prevention screenings and diagnostic tests to surgical and nonsurgical treatments and rehabilitation.
New Cardio and Vascular patients should print and fill-out this form to reduce time spent in the waiting room.
Cardiovascular Specialists offers a full range of in-office adult consultative and follow-up care and cardiac diagnostic testing, as well as hospital-based interventional cardiac care and pacemaker and ICD implantation at area hospitals including Howard County General Hospital in Columbia and The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
An exercise stress test -- also called a stress test, exercise electrocardiogram, treadmill test, graded exercise test, or stress ECG -- is used to provide information about how the heart responds to exertion. It involves walking on a treadmill at increasing levels of difficulty, while your electrocardiogram, heart rate, and blood pressure are monitored to see how far you walk and if you develop chest pain or changes in your ECG that suggest that your heart is not getting enough blood. Depending on the results of the exercise stress test, the cardiologist may recommend more tests such as a nuclear stress test or cardiac catheterization. A pharmacologic stress test is used in people who are unable to exercise. A drug is given to make the heart respond as if the person were exercising. This way the cardiologist can still determine how the heart responds to stress, but no exercise is required.
Cardiologists most often use these monitors to diagnose arrhythmias. Holter and event monitors also are used to detect silent myocardial ischemia. In this condition, not enough oxygen-rich blood reaches the heart muscle. "Silent" means that no symptoms occur.
An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart as detected by electrodes attached to the outer surface of the skin and recorded by a device external to the body. An EKG translates the heart's electrical activity into line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the line tracings are called waves. An EKG is used to measure the rate and regularity of heartbeats, as well as the size and position of the chambers, the presence of any damage to the heart, and the effects of drugs or devices used to regulate the heart, such as a pacemaker.