Valley View Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory's current services include:

This is a procedure to insert an artificial pacemaker. A pacemaker is a small, battery-operated device. It helps maintain a normal heartbeat by sending electrical impulses to the heart.
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A coronary angioplasty is a procedure done to open an artery in the heart that has been narrowed. This allows better blood flow through the artery and to heart muscle. It is often done with a balloon passed through a special catheter (tube).
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An angiography is an x-ray exam of the blood vessels. The exam uses a chemical that is injected into your blood vessels to make them more visible on the x-ray.
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In coronary stenting a mesh, metal tube is placed in an artery in the heart. The tube is called a stent. It helps keep the artery open. It is placed after an artery has been cleared of a blockage (angioplasty).

There are 2 types of stents. One type of stent is called a drug-eluting stent. It is coated with a medication that is slowly released. The medicine helps decrease the rate of reblockage in the artery. The other type of stent is called a bare metal stent. It does not contain any medication. Your doctor will discuss which stent option is best for you.
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Cardiac catheterization is a test that uses a catheter (tube) and x-ray machine to assess the heart and its blood supply.
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These procedures are done to help clear and open arteries that have narrowed. A catheter is inserted into the artery in your groin (or less likely your arm). The catheter, which has a tiny balloon at the tip, is guided into the affected artery using x-ray pictures, displayed on a television monitor that the doctor views. Once in the artery, the balloon is quickly inflated and deflated to stretch open the narrowed portion of blood vessel and restore the passage of blood. Then the balloon and catheter are removed. Under most circumstances, the doctor will place a mesh "inner tube” or stent in the artery to keep it open.
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Mechanical Thrombectomy is a catheterization procedure used for Thrombolysis.

"Thrombus" is a blood clot; "lysis" means to break apart. Mechanical Thrombectomy is used to break up a blood clot that is causing partial or full obstruction of blood flow in an artery.

Mechanical Thrombectomy is often used before angioplasty with or without stent placement, to remove dangerous blood clots.  The angioplasty procedure is thus, much safer and more effective once the clot has been removed.

Mechanical Thrombectomy involves a tiny catheter that is inserted into an artery in the groin (the femoral artery). The catheter is positioned in the peripheral artery containing the blood clot. Once properly positioned, a pump is activated, delivering a saline solution under high pressure through the pump jets into the artery, and directly at the blood clot. These saline jets create a powerful vacuum within the artery, breaking up the clot.  The clot pieces are then removed through the catheter and into a collection bag. Once the catheter is removed from the femoral artery, pressure is applied to stop bleeding, and the patient must rest flat for several hours.

During this procedure, a miniature ultrasound wand is attached to the top of a coronary catheter.  The ultrasound catheter is then inserted into an artery in your groin area and moved up to the heart. This gives the cardiologist a detailed look at your coronary arteries from the inside-out.

IVUS is often utilized during angiography. Angiography gives a general look at the coronary arteries, but can’t show the walls of the arteries.

IVUS images highlight the artery walls and can illustrate if there are coronary abnormalities, such as cholesterol and fat deposits (plaques).