Interventional Radiology Department

What can the Cath Lab at Rayong Hospital examine?

• The cardiac catheterization laboratory, or Cath Lab, can view abnormalities and the severity of coronary artery disease, examine the function of the heart muscle, the contraction of the heart, the death of the heart muscle, and measure the pressure in various heart chambers. In addition, it can also view abnormalities of the heart valves and the contraction of the heart muscle. If abnormalities are found, the doctor will perform coronary angioplasty with a balloon and fix the coronary artery with a stent.
• Cath lab can be used to diagnose and treat cerebrovascular diseases such as ischemic stroke, cerebral ischemia, etc. It performs treatment by injecting dye into the cerebral blood vessels to see abnormalities at various points, which is an examination that gives more accurate results than an x-ray examination of the blood vessels.
• Cath lab can be used to examine and treat blood vessels that are narrowed, blocked or have blood clots in the extremities by using catheterization (Vascular Intervention) such as blood vessels in the arms, legs, hands, feet.