#Interventional_Cardiology is an area of medicine within the subspecialty of cardiology that uses specialized imaging and other #diagnostic techniques to evaluate blood flow and pressure in the coronary arteries and chambers of the heart, as well as technical procedures and #medications to treat #abnormalities that impair the function of the #cardiovascular system.

#Interventional cardiology has grown to bridge many specialties, which were traditionally seen as somewhat isolated from one another. For example, #endovascular techniques mastered within the small- caliber and bifurcating coronary artery vessels of a beating heart in a conscious patient can be applied in larger vessels within #immobile_organs, especially when procedures are done under sedation or #anesthesia. This exemplifies the way interventional cardiologists work in a variety of vascular territories, including the carotid circulation, the upper and lower extremities, and the aorta and its branches. Interventional cardiology has grown in parallel with great achievements in techniques and technologies, to many innovations in its rather brief lifetime—the first balloon angioplasty was only performed in 1977.

#Heart_Congress_2020  #Tokyo  #Japan   #Interventional_Cardiology  #diagnostic  #medications  #abnormalities