Angioplasty has become one of the most common forms of repairing clogged or narrowed blood vessels in the United States, with approximately 447,000 angioplasties performed per year.

The Interventional Cardiology Program at USC is staffed with experienced interventionalists and has a well-equipped, modern interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory (commonly known as a “cath lab”) with a support team that can manage many different types of patients requiring interventional procedures.

The program offers:

• Balloon angioplasty
• Rotoblator
• DCA
• TEC atherectomy
• Laser angioplasty
• Stent placement

In addition, new therapies for the prevention of restenosis (the re-narrowing of a blood vessel), including local radiation therapy and local drug administration, are available.

The program also offers:

• Balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis
• Pulmonic stenosis
• Mitral stenosis
• Coarctation of the aorta