Cardiac Catheterization - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine ::

Cardiac Catheterization

The Adult Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory provides cardiac and peripheral diagnostic, interventional, and congenital catheterization procedures for patients 18 and older. Our patients are drawn from across a large area of the Southeast.

One of the nation’s largest and most experienced interventional cardiovascular programs, the lab performs more than 1,400 interventional procedures and 4,000 diagnostic procedures each year.

The laboratory excels in non-surgical treatment of patients with coronary artery disease, congenital heart disease, and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, including:

Complex coronary artery disease
Percutaneous valve repair or replacement
Percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects and persistent patent ductus arteriosus
Stent treatment of aortic coaractation
Peripheral and carotid stenting and intervention
Septal ablation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The lab participates in more than 30 clinical trials for novel drugs and devices each year.

Patients and families consistently rank the lab's faculty and staff among the top performers in a national patient-satisfaction survey.

In addition to the labs at Duke University Hospital and the Durham Veteran's Administration Hospital, two fully equipped Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories travel to community hospitals in North Carolina and Virginia to provide diagnostic cardiac catheterizations. This program, called HeartCare, began in 1990 and is the first mobile catheterization program to be administered by an academic medical center.

Staff

Michael H. Sketch Jr., MD Director

J. Kevin Harrison, MD Associate Director

Brian Annex, MD
Thomas M. Bashore, MD

Terry Fortin, MD

Thomas R. Gehrig, MD

Robert A. Harrington, MD

David E. Kandzari, MD

David F. Kong, MD
Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD
Kenneth G. Morris, MD

Manesh Patel, MD

James W. Peterson, MD

John Peterson, MD

Harry R. Phillips III, MD

Thomas J. Povsic, MD, PhD

Sunil V. Rao, MD
James E. Tcheng, MD
Andrew Wang, MD
James P. Zidar, MD