INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY UNIT (CATH-LAB)

Cardiology Chief: Dr Giulio Molon
Manager: Dr Guido Canali
Matron/Coordinator: Maurizio Corso

ABOUT US

The Interventional Cardiology Unit is mainly focused on coronary artery disease diagnosis and therefore treatment of ischemic heart disease by percutaneous coronary angiolplasty with stent implant in its various clinical manifestations: stable angina pectoris, unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction. Moreover we perform invasive diagnostics of valvular heart diseases, cardiomyopathies and heart failure, by right heart cardiac cathetherism. Furthermore we carry out  percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale (PFO) and interatrial defect (DIA).

WHERE

Ospedale Sacro Cuore – Second floor Entrance B  (Cardiology Department)

CONTACTS

Department Secretariat: (+39) 045.6013320
For information from Monday to Friday 10.00am-2.00pm

HOURS

Since 2013 the Interventional Cardiology Unit is Hub Center for STEMI, the Veneto Network for the Emergency Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction. This means the availability of room and staff 24/24, every day with intervention within 30 minutes from the call. Furthermore it has a dedicated ambulance for a possible emergency transport to the nearest Heart Surgery Center (Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Verona).

MEETINGS WITH RELATIVES

The meetings with inpatients and relatives are held the day before the procedure as well as at the end of it. Moreover is possible to ask a personal meeting with medical team during the hours identified in  wards.

TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENTS

Active since 1999, the CATH-LAB has two rooms. One is equipped with all the technologies for interventional cardiology procedure. Among these there is a system of integrated radiology that allows to carry out the intracoronary ultrasonography (IVUS) thanks to a thin catheter on which extremity is placed an ultrasound transductor. The IVUS is used for diagnostic purposes in selected cases or to verify the exact placement and good expansion of stent in angioplasty treatments that affect coronary tracts particularly fragile as, for example, the left main. The integrated system also allows to use a guidewire to calculate the IFR (Instantaneous Wave-free Ratio), that is the pressure gradient of a coronary stenosis that ‘angiographically’ is not clear whether is the responsible of myocardial ischemia or not.