Interventional Cardiology

Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital features the largest interventional cardiology department in the North Texas region and is staffed with specialists in the management of patients needing emergency catheterization - such as those with unstable angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. Physicians on our medical staff have expertise in the care of acutely ill patients usually arriving by helicopter from regional community hospitals.

Cardiologists on the medical staff at Baylor lead national efforts to develop new treatment techniques. Our seven cardiac catheterization labs are equipped with advanced technologies, like digital imaging, which promise to enhance accuracy and accessibility of data for physicians caring for our patients.

The cardiac catheterization laboratories are equipped to provide a complete range of emergency interventional procedures, including both standard and investigational therapies:

Coronary angioplasty
Directional atherectomy
Laser angioplasty
Advanced generation of stents, including radiation seeds and drug-coated stents
Balloon valvuloplasty
Repair of patent foramen ovale (PFO), a congenital heart defect

For patients who need more invasive procedures, such as coronary bypass or transplant surgery, the medical team at Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital works in close collaboration with Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital or Baylor Health Care System. Photographs may include models or actors and may not represent actual patients.