Cardiac Unit

​Visiting address
Meilahti Tower Hospital, 2nd floor
Haartmaninkatu 4, Helsinki

Postal address
P.O. BOX 340
00029 HUS

Contact information
Reception: 09 471 72442, Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Fax: 09 471 74574

The Cardiac Unit is a procedural unit that performs both invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

The Cardiac Unit has facilities in three hospitals: In Meilahti, Jorvi and Peijas.

The Meilahti Cardiac Unit is the largest and busiest of the units. There are sixtreatment rooms for invasive procedures, two rooms for echocardiography and one room for gamma imaging.

Thanks to its cardiological emergency services, the unit is prepared for operations around the clock. The unit does not have beds for overnight stays.

The most common invasive operations include:

• coronary artery angiography
• coronary balloon angioplasty
• catheterization examination of valve defects
• pacemaker implantation
• catheterization examination and treatment of arrhythmia
• myocardial biopsies

Non-invasive examinations include:

• echocardiography
• cardiac perfusion scans with a gamma camera.
  
  

Patients mainly arrive at the unit after being evaluated by specialists in cardiological units, coronary care units or other hospitals or departments in Southern Finland. A significant proportion of treatments are implemented on an outpatient basis.