Cardiovascular News and Updates

Learning you or a loved one has cancer changes everything. You begin paying attention to things you normally take for granted, start holding family members a bit tighter and longer, and begin researching treatment options. During all this, you may not think about you or your loved one’s heart. Cancer treatment can increase the risk for heart disease both during and after treatment. Fortunately for residents of South Georgia and North Florida, Archbold offers cardiooncology to address...

Caring for patients’ cardiovascular health is one of the most important parts of Archbold’s mission. In recent years, we’ve expanded our heart and vascular services into outlying communities through satellite clinics and partnerships—and that expansion led to an uptick in patients seeking care at the Loudermilk Heart and Vascular Center. To keep up with demand, we launched a wide-scale renovation of the center last spring to expand our treatment capabilities and create a more...

Posted on Oct 22, 2021 Archbold now offers a new, innovative therapy for the treatment of advanced heart disease and other arterial calcifications. The treatment allows physicians to modify calcified plaque that restricts blood flow safely. “Shockwave is a new technology that we are super excited to have here at Archbold,” said Cardiovascular Consultants of South Georgia Interventional Cardiologist, Clay Sizemore, MD, FACC, FSCAI. “When Shockwave came along as an alternative...

MICRA™ AV LEADLESS PACEMAKER The World’s Smallest, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Pacemaker, Now With AV Synchrony Contact Cardiovascular Consultants of South Georgia at 229.551.0083 to see if you’re a candidate! Pacemakers, the most common way to treat bradycardia (a slower than normal heart rate) and atrioventricular block (a type of heart block in which the electrical signals between the chambers of the heart are impaired), help restore the heart’s normal rhythm and...

Posted on Nov 2, 2020, Archbold Cardiovascular Consultants of South Georgia (CCSG) is now located in the former Lewis Hall Singletary Oncology Center along Mimosa Drive. “To outgrow a location is a good thing. That just demonstrates the growth that we as Cardiovascular Consultants of South Georgia have been able to accomplish as well as what Archbold has been able to accomplish,” said Archbold Memorial Hospital interventional cardiologist Christopher Daniels, MD. “It’s...