Archives: Trips

The Stereotaxis Navigation System allows physicians to direct and control catheter-based therapeutic and diagnostic devices along complex trajectories within the heart and coronary …

 Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a relatively complex type of heart disease that is marked by left ventricular stiffness, mitral …

Intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) — a type of high-resolution imaging — is a new diagnostic technique that provides Swedish cardiologists with unique information …

Endomyocardial biopsy is a procedure for monitoring heart transplant rejection by taking a tissue sample from the inside walls of the heart. A …

Coronary angioplasty, also called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is used to open arteries that have been narrowed by atherosclerosis. In this procedure, a …

Atherectomy – In this procedure, a rotary shaver   is placed at the tip of a catheter, guided to the affected area, and used to …

Balloon valvuloplasty (also called valvulotomy or valvotomy) is a procedure that widens a heart valve that is narrowed. The cause of this narrowing …