interventional cardiology


interventional cardiology

Cardiology The subspecialty of cardiology dedicated to the diagnosis, medical and mechanical therapy, pre- and post-procedure management of adult patients with acute and chronic forms of cardiovascular disease amenable to catheter-based therapy IC techniques Balloon angioplasty, intracoronary stent deployment, rotational atherectomy, extraction atherectomy, directional coronary atherectomy, balloon valvuloplasty, peripheral angioplasty. See Invasive cardiology. Cf Echocardiography, Noninterventional therapy.