A thin, hollow tube called a catheter is inserted into a large blood vessel that leads to your heart.

Cardiac catheterization (cardiac cath or heart cath) is a procedure to examine how well your heart is working. For example, during cardiac cath your doctor will:
 

• Take X-rays using contrast dye injected through the catheter to look for narrowed or blocked coronary arteries. This is called coronary angiography or coronary arteriography.

• Perform a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) such as coronary angioplasty with stenting to open up narrowed or blocked segments of a coronary artery.

• Check the pressure in the four chambers of your heart.

• Take samples of blood to measure the oxygen content in the four chambers of your heart.

• Evaluate the ability of the pumping chambers to contract.

• Look for defects in the valves or chambers of your heart.

• Remove a small piece of heart tissue to examine under a microscope (biopsy)

 

Cardiac Catheterization Services & Treatment:
 

• Coronary Angiogram

• Right heart Cath

• Swan Ganz

• Temporary pacemaker insertion

• Temporary pacemaker care per day

• Renal Angiogram

• Peripheral Angiogram

• Permanent pacemaker insertion Coronary angioplasty

• Coronary Angiogram

• Left Heart Cath

• Hepatic Angiogram

• Celiac Angiogram

• Pancreatic Angiogram

• Carotid Angiogram

• Cerebral Angiogram

• Fluoroscopy

• Aerogram

• Peripheral Arteriogram

• Coronary Angiography

• VCF RC