Cardiac Catherization
The NYU pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory performs a wide range of diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures.
These techniques allow for therapy of selected types of congenital heart disease in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, often without the use of general anesthesia, and are aimed at circumventing, minimizing or augmenting surgical intervention.
Interventions performed at NYU include balloon valvuloplasty of pulmonary and aortic valves, balloon angioplasty of narrowed pulmonary arteries or aortic coarctation, and coil occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus or abnormal collateral blood vessels.
