Cardiac catheterization involves the injection of contrast dye in order to take detailed images of the heart and cardiac arteries. Duke has been a leader in catheter-based intervention for valvular heart disease for more than 20 years.
Duke Heart Center offers one of the country’s largest and most experienced diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization programs -- and patients and families consistently rank Duke's cardiac catheterization program among the top performers in a national patient-satisfaction survey.
Using a variety of imaging techniques, Duke cath labs perform more than 15,000 diagnostic and interventional cardiac and peripheral procedures every year.
Duke Heart Center serves as a regional referral center, offering patients and referring physicians immediate, 24/7 access to experienced interventional cardiologists.
A national leader in percutaneous interventions (such as balloon angioplasty and stenting) for acute myocardial infarction, Duke’s interventional cardiology program also offers percutaneous mitral-valve repair.
The program also houses the Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Clinic, one of only a few dedicated programs of its kind in the Southeast. Our clinicians evaluate and treat hundreds of patients each year with therapies that include medication, surgery, and catheter-based alcohol septal ablation.
Mobile Catheterization Program
Duke also provides diagnostic cardiac catheterizations at community hospitals through a mobile catheterization program called HeartCare.
We currently offer mobile cardiac catheterization services in two North Carolina communities in affiliation with:
- Community Memorial Healthcenter, South Hill, VA
- Maria Parham Medical Center, Henderson, NC
For more information, patients may ask their local primary care physician or cardiologist or call 888-ASK-DUKE (888-275-3853).
Physicians
Physicians offering this service include:
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Bashore, Thomas M.
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Crawford, Lawrence E.
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Fortin, Terry A.
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Medicine /
Cardiology
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Medicine /
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
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Gehrig, Thomas
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Harrington, Robert A.
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Harrison, J. Kevin
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Kachhy, Radha Goel
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Krucoff, Mitchell W.
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Morris, Kenneth G.
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Ohman, E. Magnus
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Patel, Manesh R.
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Peterson, James W.
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Phillips, Harry R. III
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Povsic, Thomas J.
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Rao, Sunil V.
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Robinson, Stephen E.
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Sketch, Michael H. Jr.
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Tcheng, James E.
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Wang, Andrew
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Zidar, James P.
