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Angiojet

Using cardiac catheterization, a high speed jet is inserted into a blocked or narrowed vessel. The jet is used to break up and suck out thrombus (clot) in coronary arteries. By shooting high-power jets of saline through an opening in the tip of the device, it uses applied physics to create a 360-degree vacuum that breaks up and sucks out clots. The jet directs its flow back into a vacuum, helping to restore blood flow to the treated vessel.

Coronary Stent

A stent is a small stainless steel scaffolding device that is permanently placed in an artery to keep it open.  It is positioned using cardiac catheterization and is gently  threaded through a catheter to a narrowed section of artery.  Once in place, the stent is expanded and deployed, thus widening the passage for increased blood flow.

Drug Eluting Stent

A stent coated with a thin polymer containing medication that can prevent the formation of scar tissue at the site of coronary intervention and thus decreasing the chance of restenosis, or a reclosing of the artery.

Rotational Atherectomy

Using cardiac catheterization, a small guide wire is passed through a narrowing in a cardiac vessel.  At the end of the guide wire is a teardrop shaped structure on a shaft with the surface of a burr.  The burr, which rotates at 180,000 r.p.m.,  is tipped with electroplated diamond particles. With this device the cardiologist can sand a passage  through the vessel narrowing to create a larger channel. This procedure is best suited to eradicating calcified obstructions and also for anatomical bifurcations.