General Surgery

General surgery is often performed to alleviate suffering when a cure is unlikely through medication alone. This type of surgery is increasingly being carried out by minimally invasive techniques that offer patients less pain, better outcomes and shorter post-operative recovery.

Gynaecological Surgery

Gynaecology is the area of medicine that deals with health issues, conditions and surgery that are specific to women. This generally involves the female reproductive system.

Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology is the medical speciality which deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eye.

Since ophthalmologists perform operations on eyes (in particular cataracts), they are considered to be both surgical and medical specialists.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Orthopaedic surgery is concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. This specialty deals with acute injuries, congenital and acquired disorders, chronic arthritis or overuse of the bones, joints and their associated tissues, ligaments, nerves and muscles.

Otolaryngology

Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery (ENT) is also known as Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
This area of medicine is concerned with disorders of the ear, nose, throat, the head and the neck. ENT Surgeons (or otorhinolaryngologists) are specialist doctors who deal with medical and surgical treatment of conditions of the ears, nose, throat and structures of the head and neck.

Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery covers a wide range of different surgical procedures that repair, reconstruct or replace structures in many different parts of the body including the skin, face and head, hands, breast and stomach. Plastic and reconstructive surgery is concerned with the correction of facial and body abnormalities caused by birth defects, injury, burns or other trauma, disease, or aging. Plastic surgery also includes a range of procedures which may be described as cosmetic surgery.

Urology

Urology is the branch of medicine that looks at diseases of the urinary system in females and the genitourinary system (urinary system plus genital organs) in males.  A doctor who specialise in disorders of the urinary system, and the male reproductive system, is known as an urologist.

Vascular Surgery

Vascular surgery involves the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the vessels that carry blood away from (arteries) and back to (veins) your heart.

Vascular disorders include blockages and narrowing of the vessels, abnormal swellings of the vessels (aneurysm) or vessel malfunctions. Vascular disorders often involve other body systems and treatment may require the combined efforts of other medical specialists such as radiologists and general physicians.

Southern Heart is a cardiology practice located in Maori Hill, Dunedin.
Southern Heart provides the following diagnostic testing and procedures:

• Echocardiogram
  

• Exercise ECG
  

• Exercise Stress Echocardiogram 
  

• Resting ECG
  

• 24 hour Holter monitor study
  

• Event monitor study

• 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor

• Coronary angiography

• Transoesophageal Echocardiogram (TOE)

• Pacemaker implantation 

• CT Coronary angiography

• Cardiac MRI

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)

What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels.  Your heart consists of 4 chambers, which are responsible for pumping blood to your lungs and then the rest of your body. The study of the heart includes the heart muscle (the myocardium), the valves within the heart between the chambers, the blood vessels that supply blood (and hence oxygen and nutrients) to the heart muscle, and the electrical system of the heart, which controls the heart rate.