Interventional cardiology is a specialty that diagnoses and treats heart and blood vessel conditions using small tubes called catheters. Working with these small tubes, which they put through your blood vessels, allows providers to avoid doing open-heart surgery. Yet they achieve results that can be life-saving, like when treating a heart attack.

procedure performed by interventional cardiologists

The most common procedure an interventional cardiologist does is angioplasty and stent placement in your coronary (heart) artery. With this minimally invasive procedure, they can use a catheter to find a blockage in one of your heart’s arteries. Then, they make a path for your blood using a tiny balloon that pushes cholesterol buildup against your artery wall. They can keep that pathway open with a stent (wire mesh device) if needed. Restoring blood flow to your heart is a life-saving procedure for a heart attack.

Procedure performed by interventional cardiologists

1. Coronary Angiography
2. Angioplasty and Stent Placement
3. Pacemaker Implantations, Defibrillator & CRT Machine
4. Percutaneous Balloon Valvotomy
5. Congenital Heart Diseases Treatment (ASD, VSD)
6. Renal, Peripheral, Carotid Angiography and Angioplasty With Stentingtional Cardiology