Glossary/General Cardiology

Interventional Cardiology.

A subspecialty of cardiology focused on catheter-based treatments for heart disease. Interventional cardiologists perform PCI, TAVR, MitraClip, and other structural heart procedures using minimally invasive techniques.

Definition

What is interventional cardiology?

A subspecialty of cardiology focused on catheter-based treatments for heart disease. Interventional cardiologists perform PCI, TAVR, MitraClip, and other structural heart procedures using minimally invasive techniques.

Related Terms

Related glossary terms.

PCI
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, also called coronary angioplasty with stenting. A catheter-ba...
TAVR
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. A minimally invasive procedure to replace a diseased aort...
MitraClip
A catheter-based device used to treat mitral regurgitation without open-heart surgery. A small cl...
Cardiac Catheterization
A procedure in which a thin tube (catheter) is threaded through a blood vessel to the heart. Allo...
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