CaroMont Heart & Vascular - Morganton

About Us

Nationally ranked for top-quality cardiac care by The Joint Commission, HealthGrades, American Heart Association, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and CIGNA, CaroMont Heart & Vascular provides world-class cardiac care in Gaston County and the surrounding region.

For more than 20 years, CaroMont Heart & Vascular has provided comprehensive and award-winning cardiovascular care, including innovative procedures for chest pain evaluation, open heart surgery and 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 CTA imaging
• Cardiac MRI

Interventional Cardiology 

• Right heart catheterization (RHC)
• Left heart catheterization (LHC) aka coronary angiography via various arterial approaches (radial, brachial, femoral)
• FFR/IFR measurements
• Percutaneous intervention (PCI) aka balloon angioplasty +/- stenting of coronary arteries
• CTO intervention (chronic total occlusion) lithotripsy
• Peripheral angiography and angioplasty +/- stenting of peripheral arteries for PAD
• Renal artery angiography +/- stenting
• Carotid stenting
• Catheter-directed thrombolysis (for PE)
• Pericardiocentesis 

Structural Cardiology

• TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement)
• Percutaneous PFO/ASD closure
• WATCHMAN procedure (left atrial appendage closure)

Electrophysiology

• Temporary pacemaker insertion
• Permanent device implantation (PPM, ICD, CRRT)
• Loop recorder insertion
• Ablations

Cardiothoracic Surgery 

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

Vascular Surgery

• Carotid surgery 
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment (endovascular stent grafting, traditional open surgery)
• Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) management including endarterectomy and bypass grafting
• AV fistula formation (dialysis access)
• Varicose vein treatment
• Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) management