Heart and Vascular Center
We Know Your Heart
At the MetroHealth Heart and Vascular Center, we know your heart. Our specialized team of surgeons, physicians and nurses are experts at diagnosing, treating and caring for people with a range of heart and vascular concerns. We also specialize in preventing heart issues, helping you live your best life.
No organ is as important for your overall health as your heart—and no hospital cares for your heart like MetroHealth.
Comprehensive Heart and Vascular Care
Living a Heart Healthy Life.
Your heart health is critically important to your overall health. By following these tips, you can help prevent heart disease, stroke and other heart and vascular issues.
Follow a heart-healthy diet
Focus on eating vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free dairy products, fish, poultry, beans, nuts and seeds. When you cook, use olive or canola oil. Avoid fatty meats, sugar and sodium.
Get active
Adults should spend at least 150 minutes a week being physically active. Choose activities that strengthen muscle like weight training, yoga or sit-ups and push-ups. Incorporate small changes into your day like choosing stairs over elevators, parking farther away from entrances or enjoying an evening walk.
Stop smoking and avoid smoke
Whether you or a loved one smokes, smoking causes damage to your heart. If you need help quitting, enroll in MetroHealth’s Freedom From Smoking program.
Prioritize good sleep habits
Poor sleep can cause high blood pressure and heart disease. Your goal should be at least 7 hours of sleep each night. To get better quality sleep, have a consistent bedtime and wake time and avoid caffeine or nicotine. If you’re having trouble sleeping, our Sleep Medicine team can help.
When is it time to see a cardiologist?
If you answer “yes” to one or more of the following questions, talk to your provider about tests—like coronary calcium scoring, stress testing ultrasounds—to evaluate your risk for heart or vascular disease. Diagnostic screening can help determine what type of cardiologist your provider can refer you to.
- Do you have—or are you being treated for—high blood pressure?
- Do you smoke, or have you smoked in the past?
- Do you have cramping in your legs when walking or climbing stairs?
- Do you have numbness or tingling in your legs?
- Are your feet often cold?
- Do you have shortness of breath at rest or when walking or climbing stairs?
- Do you have chest pain or pressure, especially when walking or climbing stairs?
- Do you have irregular or fast heartbeats?
- Do you have weakness or dizziness?
- Do you have difficulty breathing when lying flat?
- Do you have swelling in your legs or feet?
- Have you fainted before?
- Do you tire easily?
- Have you had a stroke or a mini-stroke?
If one or more of your immediate family members have been diagnosed with heart disease, has high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you could be at higher risk for heart disease.
Comprehensive Heart and Vascular Care
At MetroHealth, we specialize in treating a range of heart and vascular conditions. Diagnostic testing can help us determine the right team to help you develop a personalized care plan.
Structural Conditions
MetroHealth treats many structural heart conditions, which are caused by problems with the way your heart valves, walls or chambers are composed. Sometimes these issues are present at birth, or congenital, and sometimes they develop later due to high blood pressure or other diseases. Chest pain and feeling tired are common early symptoms of structural heart conditions.
- Heart valve disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Heart Failure
- Stenosis
Rhythmic Conditions
MetroHealth treats many rhythmic heart conditions, often called arrhythmia.
- Tachycardia (fast heartrate)
- Bradycardia (slow heartrate)
- A-FIB (irregular heartbeat)
- Premature ventricular contractions (extra heartbeats)
Vascular Conditions
At MetroHealth, our vascular medicine providers manage vascular diseases, often without surgery.
- Atherosclerosis
- Peripheral arterial disease
- Thrombosis
- Arteriopathies
- Vasospastic disorders
Accreditations
Culturally Responsive Care
MetroHealth’s Heart and Vascular Health Equity Center of Excellence is committed to eradicating healthcare disparities for heart health.
We’re making our community a healthier place by:
- Focusing on risk factors that disproportionately impact specific people
- Providing access to resources that people need to live their healthiest life
- Focusing on early outreach for people who are at high risk for heart conditions
Training Tomorrow's Heart Experts
MetroHealth’s standing as a teaching and research hospital gives you access to the latest in innovative treatments and care from providers who are constantly honing their skills and knowledge. All MetroHealth physicians are faculty at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and are engaged in the latest research to bring advances in medicine to your care.
Be SimplyWell
The Case Western Reserve Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at MetroHealth is a fully ACGME accredited 3-year training program.
