Cardiac Services

Diseases We Treat

UPMC’s cardiac team has the expertise and technology to diagnose and treat the full range of cardiac diseases. When surgical intervention is indicated, our world-class surgeons are able to provide the most advanced and innovative care available today.

The diseases we treat include:

• Angina
• Aortic aneurysm
• Aortic dissection
• Arrhythmias
• Ascending aortic aneurysm
• Atherosclerosis
• Atrial fibrillation
• Bradycardia
• Cardiac tumors
• Cardiomyopathy 
• Congestive heart failure
• Coronary artery disease
• Descending thoracic/thoracoabdominal aneurysm
• Heart attack
• Heart disease
• Heart murmurs
• Infected heart valve due to endocarditis

Heart valve disorders

• Aortic regurgitation
• Aortic stenosis
• Mitral regurgitation
• Mitral stenosis
• Mitral valve prolapse syndrome
• Tricuspid regurgitation
  
• Patent ductus arteriosus
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Septal defects