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Heart and Vascular

Heart and Vascular

The Cardiopulmonary Neurodiagnostics Department at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth supports physicians on the medical staff in the evaluation of cardiopulmonary and neurological diseases and disorders.

Vascular Screenings

For a physician referral, browse online or call toll-free, 1-877-THR-WELL.

A complete range of cardiopulmonary procedures is performed on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Those procedures include:

  • Echocardiograms
  • Echo sonography
  • Exercise stress testing
  • Holter monitoring
  • Pulmonary function testing

Neurodiagnostic procedures, conducted through the hospital's Sleep Lab, include:

  • Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  • 24-hour Ambulatory EEG (AEEG)
  • 48- and 72-hour EEGs
  • Sleep-latency studies

For more information about heart and vascular services, call 817-433-6175.

For a physician referral, call 1-877-THR-WELL (1-877-847-9355).

  
New Outpatient Procedure Helps Diagnose, Stage Lung Cancer Without Surgery
03/30/2009

FORT WORTH, Texas — Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. — taking more lives than than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined.

Diagnosing and staging the disease traditionally involves surgical procedures to examine the lymph nodes in the upper chest area. But an emerging outpatient diagnostic technique called endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is allowing pulmonologists at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth to diagnose and determine the stage of lung cancers without making a single incision. MORE