Advanced Cardiovascular Center
2335 Dougherty Ferry Road
Suite A
St. Louis, MO 63122
ph: (314) 774-7235
fax: (314) 729-3960
PROCEDURES
Procedures performed at the facility include the following:
>>Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization - usually done to detect the presence and extent of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries by creating x-ray images of the heart’s blood vessels. It is done through the use of flexible tube called a catheter that is put into a blood vessel in the arm, groin (upper thigh), or neck and threaded to the heart along with the use of a special dye.
.>>Peripheral Angiogram - is a diagnostic study, not an operation, performed to look at the arterial blood flow from the lower abdomen down each leg. It can detect narrowed or blocked areas in one or more of the arteries that supply blood to your leg. During the procedure, a catheter (small, thin hollow tube) is inserted into an artery or vein and passed down the legs. Through this catheter, radiographic contrast material, or dye, is injected into the peripheral arteries.
>> Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) - performed to open up peripheral artery that is narrowed or blocked by plaque build-up (Atherosclerosis) by using a balloon tipped catheter. Peripheral arteries most commonly affected by atherosclerosis are: cerebral arteries, carotid arteries, renal arteries, abdominal arteries, illiac arteries, femoropopliteal arteries, and infrapopliteal arteries.
>>Peripheral Stent - performed to open up peripheral artery that is narrowed, hardened, or blocked by atherosclerosis. Procedure is performed by placing a metal stent in the blocked or narrowed artery.
>>Peripheral Atherectomy - performed to remove plaque from arteries. An ultra-thin wire is threaded through a special catheter into the blocked artery. Several devices may then be used: a high-speed rotating "burr" that grinds the plaque into tiny pieces; a small rotating cutter that "shaves off" pieces of the blockage; or a laser catheter that vaporizes the plaques.
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2335 Dougherty Ferry Road
Suite A
St. Louis, MO 63122
ph: (314) 774-7235
fax: (314) 729-3960