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Avera St. Luke’s Heart Health

Procedures to Care For Your Heart, So You Can Live Your Life

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Heart Health Services and Procedures


Now Offering Angioplasty, Cardiac Stenting

Lou Kumar, MD

Interventional Cardiologist

Navin Gupta, MD

Interventional Cardiologist

Avera Cardiology Specialists
310 S. Penn St., Suite 202
Aberdeen,
SD 57401

  • Located on the east side of Avera St. Luke’s Hospital
  • Creating a new level of cardiology services for people in this region

Balloon angioplasty: A small balloon catheter is placed across or through a blockage in the coronary artery and inflates to open the narrowing and improve blood flow through the vessel.

Stent placement:  A stent (tiny mesh tube) is placed within the narrowed area in the coronary artery and the device acts as a “scaffold” to keep the blockage open. Stent procedures are usually performed at the same time as balloon angioplasty.

Contact Dr. Kumar and Dr. Gupta at Avera Cardiology Specialists, (605) 622-2573.


Learn More About Caring for Your Heart

Find out about heart disease, caring for your heart and more about Avera HeartCARE. Avera St. Luke's also links our cardiac care technology and specialists via mobile services and telehealth.

North Central Heart Institute

Also located at Avera St. Luke's is the North Central Heart Institute physician clinic, in the new southeast addition to the hospital.