Treatment for coronary artery disease at Duke is provided by a team of physicians from the Divisions of Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, as well as the Duke Heart Center.

We have pioneered national efforts to improve the quality of care through clinical research and use of patient registries.

Duke is consistently ranked among the nation’s best in Heart and Heart Surgery by U.S. News & World Report -- we were ranked 7th in the nation in 2006.

Treatment Highlights

• Patients gain access to the latest nuclear medicine techniques and ultrasound imaging methods.
• HeartCare, the first mobile catheterization program to be administered by an academic medical center, is linked to the Duke Cardiovascular Databank and has performed 10,000 procedures throughout central North Carolina and southern Virginia
• Patients may qualify for clinical tests of experimental drug therapies.
• We are one of the nation's largest and most experienced interventional cardiology (non-surgical) programs; more than 1,700 interventional procedures performed each year.
• We are one of the nation's largest and most experienced open heart surgery programs, performing more than 1,300 operations each year.