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

A simple and highly informative functional assessment, which is useful in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, in assessing response to treatment or recurrence of previous problems; in the assessment of palpitations and giddy spells occurring on exercise; in the assessment of patients with some forms of Cardiomyopathy; and for insurance and health screening purposes. Exercise treadmill testing is usually performed for Dr Pegge’s patients by a Cardiac Physiologist at the Cardiac Department, Worthing Hospital, or at Goring Hall Hospital.