Dr Lou Hofmeyr Contact Details

Dr Lou Hofmeyr is a cardiologist at Mediclinic Panorama in Cape Town. Before you call, check you want the right Hofmeyr: there is a separate and well-known Dr LM Hofmeyr, an ear, nose and throat surgeon specialising in otology and neurotology, who practises in the Cape Town Foreshore and is a different person with different rooms. The two are regularly confused.

Official contact channels

Rooms: 021 930 6293
Email: admin@drlhcardio.org – the practice administration mailbox.
Mediclinic emergency number: 084 124, for emergencies only.

Chest pain that is severe, crushing, or spreading to the arm or jaw, especially with sweating or breathlessness, is an emergency. Call an ambulance on 10177, or 112 from a mobile phone. Do not wait for a rooms appointment.

What this organisation provides

General adult cardiology – assessment and medical management of heart disease in adults.
Adult congenital heart disease, which is a genuinely uncommon sub-interest. It covers adults born with a heart defect, many of whom were operated on as children and need lifelong specialist follow-up. Adult congenital patients are frequently lost to follow-up in their twenties and turn up again with complications; if that describes you, this is the kind of practice that handles it.
Interventional cardiology – catheter-based treatment such as angiography and stenting, done in a hospital catheterisation laboratory rather than in the rooms.
Structural heart interventions – catheter-based repair or replacement of heart valves and closure of defects, as an alternative to open surgery for patients who are poor surgical candidates.
Qualifications published by Mediclinic: MBChB, University of Pretoria, 1999; FCP (SA), College of Medicine, 2008; Certificate in Cardiology, Colleges of Medicine, 2011.

A cardiologist is a physician rather than a surgeon. Bypass grafting and open valve surgery are done by a cardiothoracic surgeon; the structural and interventional work above is the catheter-based alternative.

Address and operating information

Suite H02, Mediclinic Panorama, Rothchild Boulevard, Panorama, 7500. The postal address is the same as the street address.
The rooms are inside the Mediclinic Panorama hospital building.
Consulting hours are not published. Specialist rooms run by appointment during weekday business hours, with procedure lists on separate days.
HPCSA registration number: MP0525111
Practice number: 0180030708925, which your medical scheme needs for claims and authorisations.

Support and escalation routes

Angiography, stenting, valve procedures and device implantation all need pre-authorisation from your medical scheme, arranged before the admission date. An unauthorised procedure can leave you liable for the account, and structural heart interventions are expensive enough that the shortfall matters.
Bring the actual images, not just the reports. Prior angiograms, echocardiograms and, for congenital patients, the original operative notes change management. Congenital follow-up in particular depends on knowing exactly which repair was done.
Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300. Scheme disputes, including refusals on Prescribed Minimum Benefit cardiac conditions, go to the Council for Medical Schemes after the scheme’s own appeal.

Sources

Mediclinic Southern Africa doctor directory profile for Dr Lou Hofmeyr, mediclinic.co.za, read 5 September 2026 – speciality, rooms and postal address, telephone number, practice mailbox, core competencies, qualifications, HPCSA registration number, practice number and the Mediclinic emergency number.
lmhofmeyr.co.za, read 5 September 2026, confirming Dr LM Hofmeyr is a separate ENT surgeon in Cape Town.
HPCSA published switchboard number; published national emergency numbers.