If you are experiencing chest pain, your doctor may recommend a cardiac catheterization (also known as a coronary angiogram) to get images of your heart and learn the cause. Cardiac catheterizations ...

An eight-year HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually fatal low blood pressure known as "structural shock" survived ...

The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for “surgery-like” procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...

Physicians in New York state utilize cardiac catheterization procedures twice as often as their counterparts in nearby Ontario, suggesting the U.S. physicians may be overusing this procedure, ...

Riverview Regional Medical Center recently was recognized for its expertise in treating patients in its cardiac catheterization lab by the American College of Cardiology. Riverview is one of only four ...

New York Methodist Hospital recruited Atul Chokshi, MD, FACC, FCCP, FSCAI, who is an expert in transradial cardiac catheterization, to perform a range of cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose ...

Christus St. Catherine Hospital announced March 27 that it has performed more than 1,000 cardiac catheterization procedures. The hospital opened the first catheterization lab in Katy more than a year ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

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The increased use of cardiac catheterization in New York relative to Ontario appears related to selecting more patients at low risk of obstructive coronary artery disease, with the subsequent ...

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