Interventional Cardiology

Highpoint Health'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:

• • • Diagnostic imaging and pressure measurements
    • Balloon angioplasty
    • Clot extraction
    • Fractional flow reserve measurements
    • Intra-arterial ultrasound
    • Temporary pacemaker implants
    • Rotational atherectomy
    • Stent insertion
    • Intra-aortic balloon pump/circulatory assist device insertion
    • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Quality Heart Care, Close to Home

Highpoint Health – Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas began offering interventional cardiology in 2005. Interventional cardiology is a field of heart medicine dedicated to research and technology for minimally invasive heart procedures where traditional surgical procedures are performed during a heart catheterization. Blood vessels around the heart are treated using a balloon catheter and often a stent, which is inserted into the cardiovascular system via an artery. This subspecialty of cardiology uses stents and other devices to restore blood flow to the heart without the need for major surgery.
For more information, please call (615) 328-5015.

If you are scheduled for cardiac catheterization, please follow these instructions.

• Please do not eat or drink after midnight the night before your procedure
• Please take all blood pressure medications with only a sip of water
• Do not take Glucovance or Glucophage on the day of your procedure. Aspirin is fine to take.
• Expect to be with us most of the day
• Please bring a complete list of your current medications
• Please dress casually in clothes that will not be tight on your procedure area when you are discharged
• Please arrange to have someone drive you home. You won’t be allowed to drive or travel by yourself. (You cannot drive for 24 hours after procedure)
• Please make arrangements to have an adult with you the night after your test
• Rest is an important part of preparation and recovery; therefore, visitors are limited to two per patient.

Other visitors may stay in the Catheterization Lab waiting area.