Dr. Nicholas Pegge : Cardiologist

• DR PEGGE: RESUME
• APPOINTMENTS
• CONTACT

• Symptoms
  • Chest pain: is it angina?
  • Breathlessness
  • Palpitations, arrhythmias and blackout
  • Heart Murmur
• Conditions
  • Coronary artery disease: angina and heart attack
  • Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
  • Heart Valvular Disease
  • Arrhythmias
  • Hypertension
  • Cholesterol and other risk factor management
• Investigations
  • ECG and heart rhythm monitoring
  • Echocardiography
  • Exercise treadmill testing
  • Cardiac MRI, CT and other scans of the heart
  • Cardiac catheterisation: coronary angiography
  • Electrophysiology investigations
• Treatments
  • Drug treatment for heart disease
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention: angioplasty and stents
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting
  • Valve replacement
  • Pacemakers, Defibrillators
  • Cardioversion and Ablation

Ultrasound scanning of the heart provides non-invasive assessment of the structure and pumping function of the heart. Valve structure and blood flows through valves are seen. This test is sometimes undertaken on the same day as an outpatient appointment, or else shortly afterwards, and frequently performed by a Cardiac Physiologist either at Goring Hall Hospital or at the Cardiac department, Worthing Hospital.

Some patients need to have further echocardiography studies for specialist indications. This includes transoesophageal echocardiography and stress echocardiography, both of which Dr Pegge arranges with a consultant colleague who specialises in these imaging techniques.