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In addition to all of the examinations described on this site, Doctors Vallone and Levchuck also routinely perform diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterizations at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY and at Schneider Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY.

  1. BulletThe procedures are done under general anesthesia (the patient is asleep)

  2. BulletUnder the guidance of special X-rays called “fluoroscopy”

  3. BulletCatheters (very long IV’s) are inserted in your groin and passed up into the heart

  4. BulletIf any of the valves or blood vessels are too narrow

  5. BulletBalloons and stents (metal cages) are used to open them up

Narrowing in valve before inflation

Valve after inflation

(it’s fixed!)

  1. BulletMost patients go home the same day!

extra connection (lets blood get to the lungs when it shouldn’t)

Now it’s gone (the coil is blocking it)

Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention

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  1. BulletIf there are any holes or connections that should not be there

  2. BulletSpecial devices can be placed to close them up