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Cardiac catheterization uses a thin, flexible tube called a catheter that is placed into a blood vessel, usually through the wrist or groin, and guided to the heart.
X-ray pictures and special dye help doctors see whether the heart arteries are narrowed or blocked.
If a blockage is found, a balloon may be used to open the artery, and a small mesh tube called a stent may be placed to help keep blood flowing.
These procedures may be needed when a person has chest pain, shortness of breath, abnormal stress test results, signs of a heart attack, or concern for reduced blood flow to the heart.
Peripheral arterial procedures focus on arteries outside the heart, especially arteries that carry blood to the legs, kidneys, neck, or other parts of the body.
These procedures often use a catheter, X-ray pictures, and contrast dye to find narrow or blocked arteries.
Treatments may include opening the artery with a balloon, placing a stent to hold it open, or removing plaque with atherectomy.
Aortograms, renal angiograms, carotid angiograms, lower extremity atherectomy, and genicular artery embolization.
These procedures may be needed when a person has leg pain with walking, foot or leg wounds that are slow to heal, poor circulation, kidney-related blood pressure problems, stroke-like symptoms, or chronic knee pain from arthritis-related inflammation.
Peripheral venous procedures focus on veins, which are the blood vessels that carry blood back toward the heart.
Venography uses contrast dye and X-ray pictures to show how blood is moving through the veins and whether there is narrowing, blockage, or abnormal flow.
Venous ballooning and stenting can open a narrowed vein and help keep it open so blood can return more normally.
These procedures may be recommended when a person has leg swelling, leg pain or heaviness, suspected blood clots, vein narrowing, poor vein drainage, or symptoms caused by blocked or compressed veins.
Cardiac devices are tools that help monitor, support, or control the heartbeat.
A pacemaker is a small device placed under the skin that helps the heartbeat at a safe rate when it is too slow or irregular.
A loop recorder records heart rhythm information over months or years but does not pace the heart.
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator watches for dangerous heart rhythms and can deliver a shock or pacing treatment to help reset the heartbeat if needed.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy uses a special pacemaker or defibrillator system to help the lower chambers of the heartbeat in a more coordinated way, which can improve pumping in certain patients with heart failure.
Devices may be needed when a person has a heartbeat that is too slow, pauses in the heartbeat, fainting from rhythm problems, dangerous fast rhythms, unexplained palpitations, or heart failure where the heart chambers are not beating together efficiently.
