Interventional Cardiology Services Offered

One of the benefits of the Piedmont network is being able to make the most comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services available at all Piedmont locations. As part of that effort, Piedmont Fayette Hospital (PFH) has added interventional cardiology to its roster of cardiovascular services.

Interventional cardiology refers to a variety of nonsurgical, catheter-based procedures, like angioplasty and stent placement, for treating cardiovascular disease. Catheters are thin, flexible tubes used to get inside blood vessels for diagnostic tests or to repair damaged vessels. So in the case of stent placement, for example, the stent – a tiny tube – is run through the catheter and put in the heart or an artery to open the narrowed artery. Such procedures provide many benefits, including reducing scars, pain and the long post-operative recovery associated with surgery.

Expansion of cardiovascular care at PFH began five years ago, when adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization services were introduced. “We’ve long been able to provide cardiac catheterization services for diagnostic purposes, but with the addition of experienced interventionalists from Piedmont Heart Institute, we are now able to offer treatment for cardiovascular diseases,” says Darrell Cutts, president and CEO of PFH. “We are pleased to provide the Fayette community with such advanced and critical tools for fighting heart disease.”

PFH offers numerous advanced, comprehensive diagnostic and rehabilitative cardiology services, including electrocardiograms (EKG), holter and event monitoring, cardiac monitoring, stress-testing, diagnostic cardiac catheterization and cardiac rehabilitation. For more information on cardiology services and Piedmont Fayette Hospital, visit piedmontfayette.org.