Moving with the pulse of today’s ever-changing technology
Freeman Heart & Vascular Institute provides the region’s most contemporary, state-of-the-art facility committed to the continued advancement of cardiac care. We continually evaluate new technologies to bring you the latest, proven advancements as rapidly as possible.
ABIOMED BVS 5000
This heart-assist device works as a temporary “artificial heart” and is designed to support the circulation in a patient who has undergone successful heart surgery but whose ventricle is not yet able to pump effectively.
Atherectomy
Heavily calcified lesions may not respond to dilation but can be treated with rotational atherectomy (Rotoblator).
Biventricular pacemaker
This device improves heart contractions by pacing both left and right ventricles. The pacemaker benefits selected patients with congestive heart failure who are refractory to standard care, improving both their hemodynamic and clinical performance.
Comprehensive pulmonary services
Services include lung resection, video-assisted thoracoscopy, and flexible fiber-optic bronchoscopy.
Coronary artery bypass
Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) avoids manipulation of the ascending aorta, decreasing the risk of dislodging small pieces of cholesterol that can damage the brain, heart, and other organs.
Cryoplasty
Cryoplasty opens clogged or narrowed arteries using a new type of minimally invasive vascular therapy that rapidly cools and dilates the vessel at the same time through a catheter-delivered system. This therapy significantly lessens trauma to the blood vessel, potentially avoiding a return of the obstruction, with the patient experiencing prompt relief of symptoms.
Cutting balloon
Beneficial for coronary artery and peripheral vascular treatment, the cutting balloon device reduces barotrauma and restenosis, and allows for treatment of some complex lesions more safely.
EECP®
The outpatient treatment called enhanced external counterpulsation therapy results in nonsurgical revascularization of the heart, particularly for patients with refractory angina. This device greatly helps many patients when other treatment options have been exhausted.
Heartport™ surgery
This innovative procedure allows surgeons to approach the heart through a two- to three-inch keyhole incision, or port, made between the ribs on the chest wall. This incision is much smaller, less painful, and has a quicker healing time than open-heart surgery incisions.
Implantable defibrillators
This implantable cardioverter defibrillator monitors the heart for ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation and is the most effective treatment for malignant arrhythmias in the face of cardiomyopathy.
Maze II
Used to treat uncontrolled atrial fibrillation, this surgical procedure prevents electrical reentry and restores the heart to its normal rhythm.
Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB)
OPCAB allows a surgeon to bypass as many as five or six vessels without relying on a heart-lung machine and heavy anesthesia. Instead, a special device is used to steady portions of the beating heart, allowing doctors to operate on all parts of the organ with lighter anesthesia.
Peripheral vascular and endovascular surgery
These procedures, which repair circulatory insufficiency in areas other than the heart, can include abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, lower extremity revascularization, carotid endarterectomy, and varicose vein therapies.
Ross Procedure
Performed by fewer than 100 surgeons worldwide, the Ross Procedure is a complex treatment that uses human heart valves to replace damaged aortic valves and avoids complications stemming from the use of mechanical heart valves.
Stents
Many types of stents are used, including bare metal, self-expanding, and drug-eluting stents (sometimes referred to as “coated” or “medicated” stents, drug-eluting stents have been coated with a pharmacological agent that interferes with the process of restenosis, or the formation of scar tissue). Many different blood vessels potentially can be stented. Carotid artery stenting uses a stent inserted percutaneously within the carotid arteries to allow restoration of flow to the brain. The approval of carotid artery stenting offers some patients a less invasive way to treat carotid artery disease.
Stent graft system
This minimally invasive procedure is an alternative approach to open abdominal aortic aneursym surgery. Benefits of the stent graft treatment include a shorter recovery period, less pain, smaller incisions, and fewer complications.
Traditional angioplasty
Traditional angioplasty uses a balloon-tipped catheter (with or without a stent) to increase luminal size through an occluded artery. This procedure can be performed on some patients by using the transradial approach (through the wrist).
Venous thrombolysis/stenting
Direct thrombolysis with or without venous stenting reduces long-term symptoms of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and the postphlebitic syndrome.
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