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Cardiac Catheterization Health Information
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Cardiac Catheterization

Our interventional cardiologists perform hundreds of cardiac catheterizations every month, averaging between 1,600-2,000 cardiac catheterizations each year. Collectively, our team includes board-certified interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists (EP physicians), cardiac nurses and technicians bringing you the experience you need in caring for your heart.

About 75% of our catheterizations are done using radial artery access. An interventional cardiologist places a catheter in the radial artery in your wrist instead of in the femoral artery in your groin. Radial artery access offers you many advantages. You will have less bleeding, fewer complications and a shorter hospital stay. You will be able to get out of bed and walk around soon after the procedure.

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Our digital imaging systems allow our medical team to have a clear view of your heart and blood vessels to detect, diagnose and treat heart problems.

We perform the following procedures:

  • Ablation procedures
  • Balloon angioplasty with stent placement (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or PCI)
  • A balloon angioplasty with stent placement opens blocked arteries and keep them open, restoring blood flow. It is often performed at the same time as a diagnostic catheterization if a blockage is found. Our program ranks among the best in the nation for successful emergency angioplasty.
  • Cardiac catheterizations including catheterizations done with radial artery access
  • Carotid Stenting
  • Narrowed arteries cut blood flow to the brain, putting you at risk for astroke. Carotid stenting is a minimally invasive method that restores the free flow of blood through the carotid arteries (located in your neck) to the brain. We are one of only a few hospitals in the area to offer this procedure.
  • Endovascular stent grafting for abdominal aortic aneurysms
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) 

The Procedure

You are awake and relaxed during this procedure. Recovery time is quick and there is a low risk of complications. Your cardiologist inserts an intravenous (IV) line into a vein in your arm, neck or groin. Next a larger thin plastic tube called a sheath goes into a vein or artery in your leg or arm. Then longer thin tubes called catheters are threaded through the tube up to your heart. Live x-rays guide your medical team. This allows them to perform diagnostic tests.

During the procedure, the team may do any of the following:

  • Collect blood samples from your heart
  • Examine your arteries using ultrasound
  • Measure the pressure and blood flow in your heart and arteries
  • Measure oxygen in different sections of your heart
  • Remove (biopsy) a section of heart muscle to exam it

You may have dye injected into the catheter during some procedures. The dye helps your doctor have a clear view of your heart. If you have a blockage, you may have a balloon angioplasty with stent placement during the procedure.

Electrophysiology

Using catheters, electrodes and advanced imaging systems, electrophysiologists diagnose and treat problems with your heart's electrical system (arrhythmias). Conditions diagnosed and treated in the EP lab include:

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Our digital imaging systems allow our medical team to have a clear view of your heart and blood vessels to detect, diagnose and treat heart problems.

We perform the following procedures:

  • Ablation procedures
  • Balloon angioplasty with stent placement (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or PCI)
  • A balloon angioplasty with stent placement opens blocked arteries and keep them open, restoring blood flow. It is often performed at the same time as a diagnostic catheterization if a blockage is found. Our program ranks among the best in the nation for successful emergency angioplasty.
  • Cardiac catheterizations including catheterizations done with radial artery access
  • Carotid Stenting
  • Narrowed arteries cut blood flow to the brain, putting you at risk for astroke. Carotid stenting is a minimally invasive method that restores the free flow of blood through the carotid arteries (located in your neck) to the brain. We are one of only a few hospitals in the area to offer this procedure.
  • Endovascular stent grafting for abdominal aortic aneurysms
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) 

You are awake and relaxed during this procedure. Recovery time is quick and there is a low risk of complications. Your cardiologist inserts an intravenous (IV) line into a vein in your arm, neck or groin. Next a larger thin plastic tube called a sheath goes into a vein or artery in your leg or arm. Then longer thin tubes called catheters are threaded through the tube up to your heart. Live x-rays guide your medical team. This allows them to perform diagnostic tests.

During the procedure, the team may do any of the following:

  • Collect blood samples from your heart
  • Examine your arteries using ultrasound
  • Measure the pressure and blood flow in your heart and arteries
  • Measure oxygen in different sections of your heart
  • Remove (biopsy) a section of heart muscle to exam it

You may have dye injected into the catheter during some procedures. The dye helps your doctor have a clear view of your heart. If you have a blockage, you may have a balloon angioplasty with stent placement during the procedure.

Using catheters, electrodes and advanced imaging systems, electrophysiologists diagnose and treat problems with your heart's electrical system (arrhythmias). Conditions diagnosed and treated in the EP lab include: