Vanderbilt Heart Signature Program

The Vanderbilt Heart Interventional Program provides an individualized, non-surgical approach to the management of heart disease.

Services and treatment
The Interventional Program utilizes state-of-the-art technology to restore blood flow in narrowed vessels. Options include balloon angioplasty and stenting.

In a balloon angioplasty your physician inserts a small balloon in a narrowed blood vessel. He then inflates the balloon to help widen your blood vessel, for example an artery. After that procedure the physician may insert a stent. Stents are tiny mesh tubes that support your artery walls and keep your blood vessel open after it has been widened through balloon angioplasty. Now your blood is again free to flow through your repaired artery.

Physicians also provide curative treatments to some patients born with heart defects. Curative treatments intend to heal a person. Vanderbilt’s Heart Interventional Program offers effective treatment without prolonged hospitalization or recovery. Patients typically go home the day after the procedure and are soon back to work. Our physicians partner with the patient's own cardiologist to define the best treatment option for each patient and to customize a secondary prevention plan to limit or stop the progression of disease.

Providers
David Zhao, MD, Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
John Cleator, MD, PhD
Marshall Crenshaw, MD
Pete Fong, MD
Joseph L. Fredi, MD
Mark Glazer, MD
Henry S. Jennings, III, MD
John McPherson, MD
Robert Piana, MD
Thomas Richardson, MD
Mark Robbins, MD
Joseph Salloum, MD
David Slosky, MD