Interventional Cardiology

D. Maddox, M.D., A Professional Corporation is an interventional cardiology practice established in 1988 in Bakersfield, California. Dr. Maddox served a research fellowship in both cardiology and nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston before entering private practice.

The treatment of coronary heart disease, the most important and most commonly lethal disease of the heart, has been transformed over the past 40 years by interventional cardiology. The ability to correct blockages of the heart's own circulation before permanent damage is done, and to do so without surgery has not only saved many lives-but enhanced quality of life for hundreds of thousands of patients. The skills developed in coronary angioplasty in turn provide overwhelming success in rapid treatment of heart attacks. Today, heart attacks treated promptly are often routine overnight illnesses rather than the end of an active lifestyle.

Dr. Maddox provides a wide range of diagnostic services and cardiovascular treatments from both his office and local hospitals.

Hospital services include the most technologically advanced treatments for acute heart attacks and congestive heart failure as well as well as routine coronary angiography, balloon angioplasty and stents. Dr. Maddox also implants cardiac pacemakers, including bi-ventricular devices.

Office services include state of the art diagnostic testing for cardiovascular disease and preventative cardiology as well as management of implantable devices such as cardiac pacemakers. For special needs patients with advanced coronary disease and congestive heart failure there are niche treatments such as external counterpulsation, as well as close management of patients taking cardiac medications in complex combinations.


For assistance of other high risk patients there are nutritional instruction and diet programs. Dr. Maddox is assisted by an experienced and cordial office staff and is affiliated with the highly rated Bakersfield Heart Hospital where he has served as medical director, chief of medical staff and a founding board member. He is part owner of the Bakersfield Heart Hospital.

Dr. Maddox has full privileges at Bakersfield Heart Hospital. You can visit their website by clicking here.