CaroMont Heart & Vascular - Belmont

About Us

Nationally recognized for high-quality cardiac care by The Joint Commission, Healthgrades, the American Heart Association, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and Cigna, CaroMont Heart & Vascular provides world-class cardiovascular services to Gaston County and the CaroMont Health service area.

For more than 20 years, CaroMont Heart & Vascular has delivered comprehensive, award-winning care, from chest pain evaluation and open-heart surgery to post-hospital support.

Specialties & Procedures

General Cardiology:

• Exercise treadmill stress test
• Nuclear stress test (treadmill and chemical)
• Stress echocardiography
• Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)
• Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
• Direct current cardioversion (DCCV)
• Coronary CT angiography (CTA)
• Cardiac MRI

Interventional Cardiology:

• Right heart catheterization (RHC)
• Left heart catheterization (LHC), also called coronary angiography, using radial, brachial or femoral access
• Fractional flow reserve (FFR) and instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) measurements
• Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called balloon angioplasty, with or without stenting
• Chronic total occlusion (CTO) intervention
• Intravascular lithotripsy
• Peripheral angiography and angioplasty, with or without stenting, for peripheral artery disease (PAD)
• Renal artery angiography, with or without stenting
• Carotid stenting
• Catheter-directed thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism (PE)
• Pericardiocentesis

Structural Cardiology:

• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD) closure
• WATCHMAN left atrial appendage closure

Electrophysiology:

• Temporary pacemaker insertion
• Permanent pacemaker (PPM), implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device implantation
• Loop recorder insertion
• Cardiac ablation

Cardiothoracic Surgery:

• Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), on-pump and off-pump
• Aortic valve replacement (AVR), bioprosthetic and mechanical
• Aortic root replacement
• Ascending aortic aneurysm and dissection repair
• Mitral valve replacement (MVR), bioprosthetic and mechanical
• Mitral valve repair
• Tricuspid valve replacement and repair
• ASD and PFO repair
• Maze procedure
• Left atrial appendage (LAA) ligation and clipping
• Pulmonary embolectomy
• Pulmonary lobectomy
• Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)
• Chest tube placement
• Thoracentesis
• Pericardial window

Vascular Surgery:

• Carotid surgery
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment, including endovascular stent grafting and open surgery
• PAD management, including endarterectomy and bypass grafting
• Arteriovenous (AV) fistula creation for dialysis access
• Varicose vein treatment
• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) management