BUFFALO MEDICAL GROUP PC - SATELLITE LOCATION

The Buffalo Medical Group Cardiology Department offers a comprehensive range of services performed by a team of skilled, highly trained and dedicated cardiologists, nurses, technicians and support staff whose goal is to provide their patients with the highest quality care. Services include echocardiogram, stress testing, stress echo, cardiac monitoring, cardiac device management, electrophysiology study, radiofrequency catheter ablation and angiography.

The Cardiology Department provides three types of stress testing: regular stress test, nuclear/cardiac stress test, and persantine/adenosine stress test. A cardiologist is present during all types of stress testing.

A regular stress test records the heart rate and electrical activity of the heart while a patient walks on a treadmill. The speed and the grade of the treadmill are increased gradually to affect the workload on the heart. The patient’s blood pressure also is monitored during this test. The test helps the doctor determine the cause of various symptoms a patient may be experiencing such as chest pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and dizziness. This test also is used to measure the strength of a patient’s heart after a heart attack or open heart surgery.