Des Peres Hospital offers a comprehensive invasive and noninvasive heart care program staffed by board-certified cardiovascular specialists, cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, cardiovascular nurses and technologists.  They are trained and experienced in a wide range services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart diseasee.

From our Emergency Department to the Mended Hearts patient support group, we pride ourselves in offering cardiac care with the compassionate, personal touch our patients have come to expect from Des Peres Hospital. 

Our services include:

 Open Heart Surgery

• Coronary Artery Bypass (CAB)
• Minimally Invasive CAB
• Valvular Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Valve Repair & Replacement
• Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Saphenous Vein Harvesting
• Partial Sternotomy
• Aortic Root Dissection and Aneurysm Replacement
• Surgical Atrial Fibrillation Correction
• Endovascular grafting for repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  

Invasive Cardiology

• Digital Catheterization
• Coronary Angioplasty
• Intracoronary Stents/Drug Eluting Stents
• Rotablator and Directional Athrectomy
• Pacemaker, Bi-ventricular Pacing for Management of CHF, and ICD/Bi-V ICD Implantation and Revision
• Anjiojet system for Removal of Intracoronary Thrombus
• Intravascular Ultrasound
• Intracardiac Ultrasound
• Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements
• Electrophysiology Services for Study and Ablation Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
  • 96 channel recording system
  • RF Ablation
  • 3-D mapping
  • Implant and analysis of all forms of pacing, bi-ventricular pacing for management of CHF, and ICD and Bi-V ICD
  • NIPS analysis and advanced programming of implanted ICDs.
    

Peripheral Services

• Carotid Arteriograms
• Renal Arteriograms and Interventions
• Iliac Arteriograms and Interventions
• IVC Filter Placements
• Peripheral Thombolytic Therapy
• Cryroplasty

Vascular Surgery

• Carotid endarterectomy (plaque removal in carotid arteries)
• Aorto-iliac bypass grafting 
• Ileo-femoral grafting 
• Femoral/popliteal bypass grafting 
• Axillary/ilieo bypass grafting
  

Non-Invasive Cardiology

• 2D Echo/Doppler
• Transesophageal Echo (TEE)
• Stress/Nuclear Stress Testing
• Holter Monitoring
    

 Facilities

• 10 bed ICU/CCU
• 26 bed Interventional Cardiac Step Down Unit
• 3  Cardiac Catheterization suites with digital imaging capability
• 16-slice CT scanner with cardiac software package 
  

For open-heart surgery patients, Des Peres Hospital has an "open visiting hour" policy. With the discretion of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), visits are allowed during all hours and visits by relatives other than the immediate family are allowed, if the patient desires.

Des Peres Hospital is recognized by the American Heart Association as a “Get with the Guidelines” coronary artery disease hospital and participates in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's “100,000 Lives” campaign.