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A video visit with your doctor can be scheduled through MyChart. This offers the same high quality healthcare expertise from your doctor, with the added convenience of not having to travel to the doctor’s office.
We’re always looking for new ways to help people with heart disease live full and active lives – including those suffering from a chronic total occlusion (CTO) or completely blocked heart artery. Completely blocked coronary arteries can increase your risk of heart attack, heart failure, angina (heart pain) and the need for coronary artery bypass surgery. Our physicians at Henry Ford Hospital can unblock these chronic blocked arteries to reduce these risks. In addition, multiple studies have shown that opening chronically occluded coronary arteries can improve a patient’s quality of life.
One advanced procedure is known as chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (CTO PCI), which uses catheters (thin tubes) and tiny wires to drill through or around complete blockages. It offers a minimally invasive alternative to heart bypass surgery that can significantly shorten hospital stays, recovery time and pain.
A video visit with your doctor can be scheduled through MyChart. This offers the same high quality healthcare expertise from your doctor, with the added convenience of not having to travel to the doctor’s office.
As leading experts, we make treatment available to all patients, including those who may have been told there are no other options for them. You may be a candidate for CTO PCI at Henry Ford if:
Percutaneous coronary intervention for completely blocked arteries is a delicate, challenging procedure, with a typical success rate of 60-70 percent. As a result, many hospitals shy away from performing this procedure.
Henry Ford Hospital is the most experienced medical center in Michigan and the upper Midwest for CTO PCI, and we have one of the highest case volumes in the nation. Under the direction of world-renowned percutaneous coronary intervention specialist Dr. Khaldoon Alaswad, director of the Henry Ford Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, we have also achieved a 90 percent success rate – one of the highest in the world.
Other program features include:
Henry Ford Heart & Vascular features a heritage of offering cutting-edge technologies and keeping renowned experts on staff, to provide improved medical care in our local communities and the region we serve. However, our goal is to make this life-saving treatment available to as many as possible. Our experts are actively training doctors in the United States and all over the world in percutaneous coronary intervention techniques for completely blocked arteries, so they can achieve the same level of success available today at Henry Ford.
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