This procedure evaluates blood pressure and fluid levels in the heart and lungs. It's done specifically to:
A right heart catheterization is a minimally invasive procedure–this means that everything is done through a very small incision.
The Cardiac Catheterization Lab at UR Medicine Cardiac Care is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We offer many procedures that are not available anywhere else in the region.
The first facility in the Rochester region to perform coronary stents and angioplasty, UR Medicine Cardiac Care is part of a medical center that is actively involved in the latest research, allowing us to provide patients with the most advanced and safest procedures. Our doctors perform a high volume of many procedures, and research shows that centers which perform the highest volume of a procedure generally have the best outcomes.