Interventional cardiology

Interventional cardiology is a medical specialty of cardiology that deals only with the catheter based treatment of Heart Diseases. The main advantages of Interventional cardiology approach is have no of the scars, pain, and long recovery associated with surgery.

Additionally, the interventional cardiology procedure of primary angioplasty is now the gold standard of care for an acute myocardial infarction (Also known as your basic heart attack). This procedure involves the extraction of clots from coronary arteries, deployment of stents and balloons through a small hole made into a major artery, leaving no scars, which has given it the name "pin-hole surgery" (as opposed to "key-hole surgery").They also Perform Important procedures such as angioplasty, intra-coronary thombolysis, valvuloplasty, coronary artery stent placement, and aortic balloon counterpulsation.

To become an Interventional cardiologist you start by Going to college in some sort of science major and having at least a bacholers degree (4 years) then train as internists, which includes 4 years of medical school, plus three years of residency training. After completing the internal medicine residency, you can train to be an interventional cardiologist which requires additional fellowship training of 1-2 years then you are able to perform more advanced procedures than the invasive and non-invasive cardiologist. Total you go to at least 13yrs after high school.

The starting salaries are often above $350,000/- to $400,000/- a year in base-pay and can rise to $500,000/- a year as 3 to 5 years of experience years pile up. Many places offer "partnership" deals for candidates after working with the group for two or more years with greater profit-sharing - In such business partnerships, aggressive, hardworking and business-savvy Interventional Cardiologists are known to earn $700,000/ to $800,000/- a year!!! By Doogie Ortonward