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2. Cardiac catheterization - Wikipedia

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   Procedure. "Cardiac catheterization" is a general term for a group of procedures. Access to the heart is obtained through a peripheral artery or vein. Commonly, this includes the radial artery, internal jugular vein, and femoral artery / vein. Each blood vessel has its advantages and disadvantages.

3. Interventional cardiology - Wikipedia

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   Interventional cardiology. Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist Charles Dotter.

4. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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   ICD-9-CM. 36.09, 00.66. [ edit on Wikidata] Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. [ 2 ] The procedure is used to place and deploy coronary stents, a permanent wire-meshed tube, to open narrowed ...

5. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   002946. [ edit on Wikidata] Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart. It can relieve chest pain caused by CAD, slow the progression of CAD, and increase life expectancy.

6. History of invasive and interventional cardiology - Wikipedia

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   The birth of invasive cardiology. The history of invasive cardiology begins with the development of cardiac catheterization in 1711, when Stephen Hales placed catheters into the right and left ventricles of a living horse. [1] Variations on the technique were performed over the subsequent century, with formal study of cardiac physiology being ...

7. Coronary stent - Wikipedia

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   ICD-9-CM. 36.06. [ edit on Wikidata] A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in patients suffering from coronary heart disease. The vast majority of stents used in modern interventional cardiology are drug-eluting stents (DES).

8. Catheterization laboratory - Wikipedia

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   visualize the arteries and chambers of the heart. A catheterization laboratory, commonly referred to as a cath lab, is an examination room in a hospital or clinic with diagnostic imaging equipment used to visualize the arteries of the heart and the chambers of the heart and treat any stenosis or abnormality found.

9. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is the implantation of the aortic valve of the heart through the blood vessels without actual removal of the native valve (as opposed to the aortic valve replacement by open heart surgery, surgical aortic valve replacement, AVR). The first TAVI was performed on 16 April 2002 by Alain Cribier, which ...