- Primary CareCardiovascular consultation is the first step to ensuring better health for your heart. It is usually requested by your primary care physician or another specialist seeking more information from a provider specialized in cardiovascular medicine. This consultation may be for many different reasons, such as exploring a known diagnosis, treating an unknown diagnosis with new symptoms, managing a chronic condition, for a pre-operative cardiac clearance, or for a second opinion.
- ElectrocardiogramIt is done routinely in patients who complain of chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, or shortness of breath. This non-invasive, quick, and easy test determines heart rate, irregularities in rhythm, and also identifies a heart that is enlarged or damaged. Electrodes are placed on your chest and legs which captures electrical signals of your heart and records it to paper.
- Internal MedicineDr. Nayab Zafar graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan in 1990. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at University of Connecticut (Farmington, CT). His Cardiology fellowship was conducted at University of Missouri (Columbia, MO).
- Diabetes Care
- UltrasoundA thorough ultrasound of the deep and superficial leg veins including vein mapping for the diagnosis of deep and superficial venous reflux, deep vein thrombosis and superficial venous thrombophlebitis.
- X-Rays
- Nuclear MedicinePatients undergoing nuclear medicine testing such as a Myocardial Perfusion Scan must be injected with some form of a radioactive tracer. Because of that, there is special information you need to know. For your convenience you are now able to view and print pertinent forms online to have ready when you come in for your nuclear medicine testing appointment. The forms below are in.PDF format.
- Computed TomographyAdrian Mercado MD holds a total of 6 board certifications; Internal Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Echocardiography, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology.