The making of a multipurpose, OR-ready, angiography/interventional cath lab suite.
The field of clinical cardiology is now poised to benefit from recent technological advances. Potential for expanding services, increasing productivity, and controlling costs is now awaiting the clinical cardiology. At the same time, certain treatment therapies once addressed exclusively through surgery are being replaced by less invasive procedures performed by interventional cardiologists and radiologists as well as surgeons.
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Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, USA.
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