Cardiac Catheterization
Each year, cardiologists at the New Jersey Heart Institute perform more than 7,000 catheterization procedures in the institute's cardiac-catheterization laboratories in Camden. In addition, NJHI cardiologists manage the cardiac catheterization lab at Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Cherry Hill. Cardiac catheterization services are also available at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County.
In these specialized facilities, cardiologists determine the location and severity of narrowing or blockage in the coronary arteries. For these diagnostic cardiac catheterizations, they use highly advanced imaging technologies to assess circulation to the heart walls that form the chambers of the heart.
Interventional cardiologists at Lourdes also treat blockages in these coronary arteries in the catheterization lab - performing thousands of angioplasties each year in the Camden lab alone. These procedures typically involve coronary stent insertions and may also require atherectomy procedures. Restoring coronary blood flow in this way helps many patients to avoid open-heart surgery.
The highly trained specialists on the Lourdes team can also direct
angioplasty to arteries in other parts of the body, including
those that serve the kidneys, legs and feet. Similarly, Lourdes cardiologists
implant stent grafts to
non-surgically treat aneurysms in the aorta and to prevent stroke.
In addition, Lourdes cardiothoracic surgeons can treat defects in the wall j
oining the atria of the heart, using catheterization and a
new device
For more information about the New Jersey Heart Institute at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, please call 856-365-4072.
For more information about the Cardiac Program at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, call 609-835.3073.
