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Cardiology Clinic
201 Plaza Drive, Suite C
Sikeston, MO 63801
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Interventional Cardiology
Interventional cardiology is a specialty that diagnoses and treats heart and blood vessel conditions using small tubes called catheters. Working with these small tubes allows providers to avoid doing open-heart surgery. They can achieve results that can be lifesaving, like when treating a heart attack.
What is interventional cardiology?
Interventional cardiology uses catheters to diagnose and treat various cardiovascular diseases. Catheters are tiny tubes that healthcare providers put through your blood vessels. You don’t need an incision (cut) for these procedures.
In medicine, an intervention is a treatment or procedure that prevents or treats disease. For this field of medicine, the interventions involve using catheters.
Interventional cardiology procedures have benefits compared to more invasive cardiac surgeries, like:
- Smaller cuts
- Lower risk of blood loss
- Faster recovery time
- Shorter hospital stays
What does an interventional cardiologist do?
In interventional cardiology, the focus is on making sure your blood flows the way it should. Providers in this specialty find and fix issues that get in the way of your blood flow. For example, they may check the blood flow and pressure in your coronary arteries and heart chambers.
An interventional cardiologist uses catheters to do minimally invasive procedures on your heart or blood vessels. They can diagnose or treat conditions this way. They don’t do open-heart surgery like a cardiothoracic surgeon does.
Source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24511-interventional-cardiology
