CARDIAC CATH LAB - Mount Sinai Hospital

RESULTS
Growth and Trends in Cath Lab Volume
and Procedures
N
20,000
Total Cath Lab Volume
15,000
Total Cath
10,000
Total Interventions
5,000
Biopsies
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
With over 5,800
interventions last
year, our cath lab
is the leader in
intervention in
the U.S.
The volume of diagnostic cath and interventional procedures at
the Mount Sinai cardiac catheterization laboratory has experienced
substantial growth over the last five years in every aspect of cardiac
procedures. Total percutaneous interventions encompass coronary
interventions (PCI), endovascular interventions (for diseased limb,
cerebral or renal arteries), valvuloplasties (for stenosed aortic or
mitral valves), alcohol septal ablation (for hypertrophic obstructive
cardiomyopathy [HOCM]) and interventions for other structural
heart diseases (such as closing of ASD, PFO or paravalvular leaks).
This last category, performed by our pediatric cardiologist, is not
counted in our interventional numbers and is steadily increasing,
with 78 such procedures in 2009. In 2009 we carried out a record
5,800 interventions of which 5,078 were PCI, 602 were endovascular
interventions, 100 were balloon aortic valvuloplasties, 11 were balloon
mitral valvuloplasties and nine were alcohol septal ablations. Carotid
stenting is performed in the special neurointerventional radiology
suite at MSH by neurointerventionalists or vascular surgeons.
8 Mount Sinai Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab