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

• 24-Hour Emergency care 
• CareFlight Air Transport
• All new ICU with Avera eICU® CARE for additional 24-hour monitoring by specialists
• Cardiac Catherization Lab and Peripheral Vascular Lab. Find out more about our Cardiovascular Lab.
• Cardiac CT Calcium Scoring
• Balloon angioplasty 
• Coronary stent placement 
• Nuclear medicine, stress testing, EKG, echocardiography, Holter monitoring
• Cardiologist and interventional cardiologist
• Critical Care specialists
• Avera Quality Award winner for congestive heart failure program
• Procedures at Avera HeartCARE 
• Tests at Avera HeartCARE
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
• Cardiac Education Classes 
• Preventive Screening Opportunities

Now Offering Angioplasty, Cardiac Stenting

Lou Kumar, 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 Dr. Kumar's addition to Avera St. Luke’s has created a new level of cardiology services for people in this region

Procedures Avera St. Luke’s Now Offers

Balloon angioplasty – where 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 – where 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 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.