Interventional Cardiology
Havasu Regional Medical Center’s experienced heart catheterization team performs procedures using balloons, stents, and other devices to open blocked, or repair damaged blood vessels of the heart or body. This often avoids the need for heart surgery.
Heart conditions can increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke or loss of limbs.
Common treatable conditions include:
- Coronary artery disease (narrowing of the coronary arteries)
- Heart valve disease
- Peripheral vascular disease
Procedures and treatments offered:
- Carotid stenting
- Clot extraction
- Coronary artery interventions including balloon, stenting and atherectomy
- Diagnostic imaging and pressure measurements
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) procedures to treat abnormal heart rhythms
- Intra-aortic balloon pump/circulatory assist device insertion
- Pacemaker implants
- Pascal mitral valve repair
- PFO closures
- Temporary pacemaker insertion
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- WATCHMAN implant