Interventional Cardiology in Indiana, Carmel

Interventional cardiology uses minimally invasive endoscopic method of intervention on the heart and blood vessels.

Advantages of Interventional Cardiology

• Interventional cardiology does not require traditional operative intervention, general anesthesia, who always has a negative effect on the body.

• Time of Intervention is significantly shorter than when the operation.

• Reduce the time of hospital stay, and in some cases hospitalization is not required.

• Endovasal techniques have virtually no contraindications, compared with the operation and can be used even with a serious condition of the patient.

• Dates of rehabilitation are much shorter than after surgery.

Interventional Cardiology for the diagnosis of diseases 

• Modern computerized technologies of endovasal interventions - interventions provide high accuracy and reliability of the survey and shows practically at all diseases of the heart and blood vessels.

• So, in probing of heart can be viewed of its cavity, the condition of the valve apparatus, measure in the dynamics the pressure, detect congenital and acquired vices.

• When probing vessels is determined the state of their walls, skylight, the presence of thrombi and atherosclerotic plaques, as well as to accurately determine the level a lesion of coronary vessels, including vessels of small caliber.

• Coronarography is performed by using the optional introduction of contrast medium into a vessels. This study is the most reliable in the diagnosis of atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction.

Treatment of diseases in Interventional Cardiology

• Application of interventional cardiology in the treatment of heart and vascular diseases are very widely. Primarily, this atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, which as a result leads to myocardial infarction.

• Endoscopic interventions successfully implemented also in congenital and acquired heart defects. And thus there is no need for open heart surgery.

• The treatment of many types of cardiac arrhythmias - paroxysmal tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia also successfully performed by using endoscopic interventional techniques.