Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Treatment
UPMC's integrated team of cardiologists and other specialists work together to provide a full range of treatment options for coronary artery disease (CAD), also called heart disease.
Tailored to the cause and severity of your CAD, your heart disease treatment may include:
| medicines |
- relieve chest pain
- prevent progression of CAD
- improve blood flow to the heart
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| lifestyle changes |
- to prevent or slow heart disease:
- regular exercise
- healthy diet
- smoking cessation
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| catheter-assisted procedures and bypass surgery |
- can help open blocked arteries
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Procedures for treating coronary artery disease
- Interventional procedures — nonsurgical treatments to open the artery, such as a cardiac catheterization with stenting or balloon angioplasty.
- Coronary bypass graft surgery — to restore blood flow to the heart muscle using blood vessels from other parts of the body.
UPMC's Cardiac Catheterization Program specialists perform more than 16,000 diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures each year.
And more than 950 coronary artery bypass graft surgeries were performed at UPMC hospitals last year. Our cardiothoracic surgeons have helped pioneer the use of minimally invasive techniques in heart surgery, performing the first minimally invasive coronary bypass graft surgery in the tristate (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia) region.
Learn more about heart and vascular treatments at UPMC.
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