Heart and Lung Center Outpatient Clinic, Meilahti Tower Hospital

You need a referral to become our patient.

Other cardiac examinations conducted in our outpatient clinic include: ultrasound of the heart, clinical exercise test (exercise ECG), long-term ECG registration (Holter), and pacemaker monitoring. In addition to these, other outpatient examinations are performed as needed: ECG, laboratory and X-ray examinations, MRI and CT scans of the heart and blood vessels, and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.

Common examinations performed on patients with pulmonary and esophageal issues include PET-CT, gastroscopy, manometry, pH measurement, and spirometry.

Depending on the severity of your illness, you will be referred to further examinations or procedures. Your further care may also take place at a specialized outpatient clinic in your region, at your local health center, or at another specialist medical care outpatient clinic.
 
Our patients have appointments for various reasons:

• Examination and treatment of illnesses of the heart valves
• Treatment of cardiac insufficiency
• Treatment of cardiac illnesses caused by infections
• Examination and treatment of arrhythmia
• Pacemaker monitoring and remote monitoring
• Treatment of hereditary cardiac illnesses and arrhythmia
• Treatment and monitoring of adult patients with congenital heart defects
• Treatment and postoperative monitoring of patients waiting for a heart transplantation
• Treatment and postoperative monitoring of patients waiting for a lung transplantation
• Treatment and monitoring of patients with pulmonary hypertension
• Treatment of treatment-resistant high cholesterol
• Examination and treatment of patients undergoing pulmonary and esophageal surgery
• Examination and treatment of illnesses of the thoracic aorta.

At the outpatient clinic, appointment and surgery schedulers in cardiac surgery and lung and esophageal surgery are also at your service.