Dr. Nicholas Pegge : Cardiologist

• DR PEGGE: RESUME
• APPOINTMENTS
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• 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

This refers to minimally invasive, keyhole techniques to assess the electrical conducting system of the heart with catheters introduced under local anaesthetic via great veins in the top of the leg and sometimes around the neck. This is necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of some heart rhythm disturbances. Ablation treatment – freezing or heating parts of the conducting system of the heart to cure or improve heart rhythm problems – may sometimes be undertaken at the same time if appropriate. Dr Pegge’s patients who require this are referred to consultant colleagues who specialise in these procedures.