ABOUT DR. BOLOURCHI
DR. BOLOURCHI BRINGS NEW CARDIOLOGY TECHNIQUES TO BEEBE
a Local newspaper, july 30th 1980 edition, announced that FULL-TIME
CARDIOLOGIST, DR. HABIB BOLOURCHI, HAS JOINED beebe hospital
in lewes. shortly after joining the hospital, dr. bolourchi began
to expand the cardiology depArtment. Dr. Bolourchi came to beebe after five
years of internal medicine and cardiology at the sinai hospital in detroit,
michigan. prior to that dr. bolourchi completed a year's internship at the
norwegian-american hospital in chicago. dr. bolourchi brought to beebe
hospital some of the most advanced cardiological techniques being used in the
nation at that time, including treadmill exercise test, echocardiography and
phonocardiography, right heart catheterization and nuclear cardiology.
IN AUGUST OF 2003 ANOTHER LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORTED THAT HENLOPEN CARDIOLOGY
PHYSICIANS WERE IN THE FOREFRONT OF PROGRESS TOWARD SOLVING ONE OF THE
MEDICINE'S MOST BAFFLING CHALLENGES: DIAGNOSIS OF INTERMITTENT "SEIZURES" THAT
INEXPLICABLY CAUSE PEOPLE TO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS. ePILEPSY? MAYBE NOT.
ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN THE jOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY,
A COLLABORATIVE STUDY BY NEUROLOGISTS AND CARDIOLOGISTS FOUND THAT 42 PERCENT
OF PATIENTS PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY AND SUFFERING FROM TREATMENT
RESISTANT EPILEPSY OR UNUSUAL SEIZURES DID NOT, IN FACT, HAVE EPILEPSY. THOSE
FINDINGS REINFORCED THOSE OF hABIB bOLOURCHI, M.D., FELLOW, AMERICAN COLLEGE
OF CARDIOLOGY AND HIS ASSOCIATE DR. HANNA AKIKI, M.D. AT HENLOPEN CARDIOLOGY.
USING A VARIETY OF METHODS INCLUDING INNOVATIVE NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, BOTH
PHYSICANS WERE CONTINUALLY WORKING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS
MISDIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY. EPILEPSY AFFECTS MORE THAN TWO MILLION
PEOPLE IN THE U.S., OF WHICH ONE IN FOUR CONTINUES TO SUFFER FROM SEIZURE-LIKE
EPISODES DESPITE MEDICAL TREATMENT. "WE NOW HAVE A VARIETY OF WAYS WE CAN
CHECK ON UNEXPLAINED SEIZURES AND SYNCOPE OPTIONS TO REDUCE OR PREVENT THEM"
SAID DR. BOLOURCHI. " THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK. IF IT'S A
HEART PROBLEM, THE RIGHT THERAPY CAN MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE."
FINALLY, AS A RESULT OF THE IMPACT DR. BOLOURCHI HAD ON THE LOCAL AREA, HE WAS
PRESENTED WITH AN HONORARY CITIZEN AWARD OF THE CITY OF LEWES DELAWARE.
HENLOPEN CARDIOLOGY, REHOBOTH location, WAS THE FIRST TO ESTABLISH an
IN-OFFICE NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY LABORATORY IN THE SUSSEX AND KENT COUNTIES. ALL
OTHER ASPECTS OF NON-INVASIVE CARDIOLOGY TESTING HAS ALSO BEEN OFFERED SINCE
THEN. NOW, IN 2005, HENLOPEN CARDIOLOGY IS GROWING AGAIN. CURRENTLY UNDER
expansion, THE larger FACILITY WILL HOUSE ADDITIONAL NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE
COMMUNITY.
