Tufts Medical Center's Interventional Cardiology Center in Boston has been a leader in innovative non-surgical approaches to the management of heart disease for the past 20 years, with a track record of superior patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness. The Interventional Cardiology Center offers a full array of the most advanced techniques in diagnostic catheterization and non-surgical methods for treating coronary artery disease and obstructive valvular heart disease.
Our interventional cardiologists maintain strong lines of communication with our patients' primary care physicians and community-based cardiologists. We collaborate closely with these individuals in formulating expeditious plans for cardiac intervention and in providing cost-effective post-procedural management.
Tufts Medical Center was among the first in the country to implement balloon techniques for treating coronary and valvular disease. Our present interventional cardiology activities employ all advanced techniques and devices, including stent, atherectomy, and laser technology. We pioneered the world's first network system for transferring angiographic images, needed for life-saving procedures between hospitals in Greater Boston.
We actively pursue a mission of performing invasive diagnostic testing, therapeutic procedures and clinical and molecular research.
We perform multi-disciplinary cross-collaboration with a variety of disciplines to effectively treat patients afflicted with heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, renal dysfunction, etc.
Diagnostic modalities employed include:
-
Coronary and peripheral angiography
-
Myocardial biopsy
-
Hemodynamic assessment of suitability for cardiac transplant
-
Physiologic assessment of the termination of stenosis severity
-
Intravascular ultrasound
-
Intracardiac echocardiography
Percutaneous therapeutic procedures are applied in an evidence-based fashion to the coronary and peripheral vasculature including:
-
Intra-aortic balloon cardiac assist
-
Percutaneous right and left heart assist devices
-
Coronary and peripheral vascular intervention
-
Employing latest generation drug-eluting stents
-
Atherectomy
-
Alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
-
Percutaneous treatment of congenital heart lesions
In keeping with the mission statement of our institution and division, our catheterization laboratory participates in a myriad of pharmacologic and device research trials, spanning a spectrum from large multi-center clinical trials to investigator-initiated single-center studies.
We take great pride in providing the most cost-effective interventional cardiovascular care possible. We provide all of our services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, not only to respond to emergency patient needs, but also to care for patients expeditiously and to return them to the care of their community-based physicians.
Interventional Cardiology Center Experts: