Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...

Dan’s emergency came just as UH St. John completed the renovation of its cardiac catheterization lab, equipped with state-of-the-art technology for cardiac and peripheral vascular procedures. On that ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

Every minute, a healthy heart will pump out 1½ gallons of blood across more than 60,000 miles worth of blood vessels to provide each of our body's cells with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. When ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. For most people in rural western Colorado, the prospect of having a heart attack is a scary thought. Hospitals in the region, while offering quality care, are singularly ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a new scientific statement that clarifies the role of the cath lab in managing patients who’ve experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), both ...

A Swan-Ganz catheterization is a type of pulmonary artery catheterization procedure. It’s a diagnostic test used to determine whether any hemodynamic, or blood flow-related, abnormalities exist in the ...