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What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the branch of medicine that addresses the heart. This includes treating coronary artery disease, or the vessels that provide blood flow to the heart muscle. It also includes treating heart failure, or a weakened state of the heart muscle. It also includes diagnosing and treating valvular heart disease, when one or more of the four valves in the heart become diseased. Some cardiologists also treat the vessels in other parts of the body. The disease process in the coronary arteries is like that in the kidney arteries or leg arteries, and many of the treatments are very similar.
Cardiology Procedures Performed at The International Heart Institute of Montana
Heart Artery Procedures
- Angioplasty and stenting of coronary (heart) arteries
- Brachytherapy (radiation) to stented arteries with restenosis
- Rotoblator treatment of heart arteries
- Drug eluting stents
- Percutaneous Patent Foramen Ovale closure for stroke patients
- Front Runner Device for Total occlusions
Rhythm Disorders
- Electrophysiology studies
- Ablation therapy of fast heart rhythms
- Pacemaker insertion
- Biventricular pacemakers for heart failure
- Automatic Internal Cardiac Defibrillator Insertion
- Tilt table assessment for syncope (fainting)
- Pacemaker/Defibrillator clinic
Peripheral Artery Procedures
- Angioplasty and stenting of peripheral or renal arteries
- Abdominal Aneurysm repair with stent grafts
- Carotid stents for patients with stroke
Prevention
- Public Education on Heart Disease topics: Cholesterol, Heart Failure, Prevention of heart disease and strokes.
Research
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