Department of Cardiology

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Department of Cardiology

The Department of Cardiology performs all examinations and tests related to heart disease, and treats the entire range of these disorders. Patients at Rambam Health Care Campus requiring diagnosis, treatment, and/or clinical follow-up of heart diseases are hospitalized in this department.

The department maintains a number of units and clinics that provide specialized medical care and services for a wide range of heart diseases, including: the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, the Unit for Interventional Cardiology (catheterizations and angioplasty), the Unit for Non-invasive Cardiology (Echocardiography), Pacemaker Service, Clinical Electrophysiology Service (Arrhythmias), Congestive Heart Failure Clinic, Pericardial Diseases Clinic, Post-Heart Attack Rehabilitation Clinic, Valvular Heart Diseases Clinic, Pregnant Women with Heart Disease Clinic, Stress Tests, Holter monitoring, and the General Cardiology Clinic.

The department is the largest of its kind in Northern Israel, with 37 hospitalization beds. The department’s team includes 22 cardiology specialists and 9 physicians. The staff excel in clinical and basic research, carried out in collaboration with the Technion’s Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. The department also serves as a center for teaching and training medical students, internists, nurses, x-ray technicians, and other paramedical personnel.