Interventional Cardiology
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Call Meritas Health Cardiology at 816.221.6750 or find a cardiologist offering online scheduling.
Heart and vascular conditions often require specialized treatment and intervention. But that doesn’t always mean surgery. At North Kansas City Hospital, our skilled doctors have years of heart and vascular experience. You get the support you need with both surgical and nonsurgical interventional cardiology approaches. Both options treat and manage your condition in the best way possible.
What’s Interventional Cardiology?
Interventional cardiology is the nonsurgical treatment of heart conditions. You’ll find that NKCH offers various cardiac interventions to diagnose and treat many types of heart disease. Most nonsurgical procedures are catheter-based and use minimally invasive techniques whenever possible — often resulting in faster, easier recovery for you.
Benefits of Interventional Cardiology
If you receive interventional cardiology services, you may benefit from less scarring and pain. Hospital stays also tend to be shorter, so you get back to your regular routine faster.
Interventional Cardiology Services
Explore our range of interventional cardiology services, which include:
- Cardiac catheterization
- Carotid angioplasty and stenting
- Coronary angioplasty and stenting
- Intravascular ultrasound
- Mitral valve repair
- Nonsurgical patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure
- Nonsurgical atrial septal defect (ASD) closure
- Structural heart therapies (TAVR, WATCHMAN™)
- Thrombectomy
Cardiac Catheterization Lab
You’ll find top-rated care at catheterization lab. We have high-quality, precise technology, expert staff and a range of services. Our catheterization lab also ranks as one of the top three hospitals in the metro area for how many cardiac procedures we perform. So, you can trust the experience of our heart experts to ensure you receive timely, appropriate treatment for any cardiac problem.
Nonsurgical heart and vascular services at our catheterization lab include:
- Atrial septal/patent foramen ovale closures
- Biventricular pacemaker or defibrillator placement
- Cardiac ablation
- Cardioversion
- Coronary artery stenting
- Cryocath ablation
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
- Diagnostic peripheral catheterization
- Directional coronary atherectomy (DCA)
- Electrophysiology studies
- Internal automatic cardiac defibrillator (ICD)
- Intracoronary vascular ultrasound (IVUS)
- Intravascular coronary Doppler velocity
- Neurocardiogenic syncope (fainting) evaluation
- Percutaneous peripheral angioplasty and intervention
- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
- Permanent pacemaker
- Radiofrequency ablation
Heart Surgery & Procedures
Your heart condition may require more extensive treatment than interventional cardiology services. That’s OK — and we’re ready to help you through the process. Feel confident as you turn to our highly skilled cardiothoracic surgeons for heart surgery.