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The Interventional Cardiology program at Yale-New Haven Hospital is among the safest and most critically responsive in the country. The catheterization laboratories at YNHH performed over 3,500 diagnostic catheterizations in 2007 alone, and has among the lowest reported complication rates in the United States (see chart below).
Attentive patient care is the top priority; in 2007, patients with chest pain had a diagnostic EKG on average within seven minutes and flow restored with angioplasty and stenting of the heart artery blockage within 73.5 minutes when necessary. Our program proudly ranks among the top five centers in the United States for "door-to-balloon" times by the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction.
Our busy program and interventionalists have long been engaged in leading edge innovations, including the development and first intracoronary stent placement in New England, early development and utilization of atherectomy devices, novel gene and cell based therapies to attempt to "grow" new heart tissue and blood vessels, and technique and technology development for the successful treatment of chronically blocked arteries. It is our belief and vision that patient care is best served in an environment where physicians teach physicians and advancement of science and global patient management strategies is prioritized.
We serve a broad referral area for patients and physicians and manage complex and high risk patient problems as our routine. We make every attempt to help patients who have been told they have "no options" or "poor options."
Procedures
Our interventional cardiovascular team performs all interventional cardiac and vascular procedures, including:
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