Adult Resources
| CHIP (Rehab) | Heart Function Centre | Specialised Clinics | Echocardiography |
| Westmount Square Medical Imaging | Endothelial Function Clinic | JGH Cardiology Prevention Clinic | MUHC Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center |
| Hemodynamic Labs | Coronary Care | MUHC Women's Health Clinic | Electrophysiology |
This page will help direct you to and describe various McGill Cardiology Activities.
This is a multidisciplinary centre for patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease, now located at the RVH site. Dr. Ariane Marelli is the Director. Click on the link below to go their website.
Website: www.maude.mcgill.ca
This is a new clinic initiative towards a large group of patients
under-served in the past.
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Goal- Primary prevention of heart disease. |
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Objectives- heart disease risk assessment, treatment and lifestyle changes. |
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Target population- women 35 years old + |
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Access- referral and non-referral |
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Location- MUHC Royal Victoria site |
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Contact for appointment- Nadia (514 934-1934, ext. 35837) |
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Clinic Leader- Wendy Wray RN BSN APN. Pager 514 406-4203 |
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Jewish General Hospital Cardiovascular Prevention Centre
This is a new multi disciplinary centre for people with risk factors for cardiac disease. It is headed by Dr. Ernesto Schiffrin, a hypertension expert and the Physician-in-Chief at the Jewish General Hospital. Click on the link to be taken to their website.
Website: www.jgh.ca/en/CardiovascularPreventionCentre
McGill Cardiac Health Improvement Program
This offsite program offers cardiac rehabilitation and exercise programs to patients for primary and secondary prevention. The program has personnel from several McGill hospitals and offers several activities for group and home based exercise training, stress management, smoking cessation, diet and weight control. Referrals and enquiries are welcome. More complete information is available at the CHIP website or by telephone.
The CHIP Centre is ready to accept your referrals. The new Step Up Program serves as an introduction for post cardiac surgery and post coronary intervention patients. Call up and check out the program of five sessions at a nominal cost to the patients..
Location:3505
Atwater Ave.- The Montreal Badminton and Squash Club
Montréal (Québec)
Tel: (514) 489 6630
Fax: (514) 489-2604
Website: www.chiprehab.com
McGill Heart Failure and Transplantation Clinic
This new combined medical and surgical service provides care for advanced cases of congestive heart failure, pretransplantation assessment and care with advanced techniques such as implantable ventricular assist devices, biventricular pacing and heart transplantation. The McGill Heart Transplant program has been very successful over the years, thanks to the efforts of a multidisciplinary team.
Staff
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All staff can be contacted at 514-843-2850 FAX
514-843-2853
Website:
www.muhcheartfailure.com
Jennifer Marcotte, Medical Secretary
Dr. Nadia Giannetti, Cardiologist, Medical Director
Dr. Renzo Cecere, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Surgical Director
Dr. Marcelo Cantarovich, Transplant Nephrologist
Roxane Chartier, Heart Failure Coordinator
Evelyne Cyr, Post-Heart Transplant Coordinator
Charlene Barber, Research Coordinator
Sonia Page, Dietician
There are three adult and one dedicated pediatric echo laboratories at McGill on the various sites. Echo facilities are also present at the affiliated hospitals of St. Mary's and the Lakeshore. The 'main' labs are each busy units with multiple echo machines and a wide variety of clinical and research activities. Studies are all supervised by board certified cardiologists with years of experience in the field. Trainees from the Cardiology Training Program and other areas are active on all sites as well. There have been several recent purchases and upgrades of equipment on all sites. Unfortunately the waiting lists remain long, attesting to the importance and the demand for echocardiography as perhaps, the prime method of noninvasive cardiac assessment..
RVH Echo Lab - Tel. 514 934-1934 loc. 34644 ( Direct Line), 514 843-1505 for appointments. Email: echolab@muhc.mcgill.ca Lab Director: Jean Buithieu MD. Equipment: Three GE Vivid 7 systems and one Vivid I in Echo Lab. Vivid 7 and Vivid I for MAUDE Clinic and intervention. Two Vivid 7 in the Cardiac Surgery ORs.
Exams performed: Transthoracic, Transesophageal, 3D, Intraoperative, Interventional, Exercise, Pharmacologic and Pacing Stress, Contrast, Neonatal.
Areas of Interest: Heart Failure and Transplant. Brain Injury and Myocardial Function.
MGH Echo Lab- Tel. 514 934-1934 loc. 44101 . Lab Director: Jean Buithieu MD. Equipment: Three GE Vivid 7. Vivid I
Exams performed: Transthoracic, Transesophageal, Intraoperative, Exercise, Pharmacologic Stress and Contrast Echo.
Areas of Interest: Contrast echo and tissue harmonics. Stress echo.
SMBD-JGH Echo Lab - Tel. 514 340-8222 loc. 5801. Lab Director: Lawrence Rudski MD.
Equipment: GE Vivid 7, .
Exams performed: Transthoracic, Transesophageal, 3D, Intraoperative, Exercise, Contrast, Pharmacologic, Fetal and Neonatal.
Areas of Interest: Congenital Heart Disease. Stress echo. Three D echo. Hypertension.
MCH Echo Lab-
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Recording
Available from Cardiology at RVH (Telephone: 514 934-1934, local 34122 for appointment) and Internal Medicine at MGH. Requisition form for RVH.
forms/ambulatory BP requisition RVH.doc
Arrhythmias are common problems in cardiology and internal medicine. Common tools for study include stress testing, routine ECG and monitoring, 24 hour or longer ambulatory monitoring (Holter) studies, signal averaged ECGs and more invasive studies such as electrophysiologic testing. Director: Dr. Vidal Essebag
McGill University Health Centre Electrophysiology Laboratory - Montreal General Hospital, E5. Telephone 514 934-1934 Loc.
Reveal Implantable Monitors for refractory syncope and prolonged monitoring
Contact Dr. Magdi Sami at RVH. (514) 843-1505
A new private McGill affiliated radiologic center offering everything from Panorex to CT and MRI at "reasonable" costs. Conventional xrays will also be done, including medicare covered procedures. Cardiac echocardiography available by referral (private and not covered by Medicare- Drs. Haichin and Brophy)
Contact 514 939-WSMI or www.radiologiemontreal.com