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Use the links below to learn more about various types of treatment for heart disease, and to see the hospitals within Sutter Health who offer those treatments.

Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization

Cardiac catheterization is a method of viewing the vessels leading to the heart. This method allows the physician to see areas where blood flow is restricted or blocked.

Read more about cardiac catheterization.

This service is offered at the following Sutter hospitals:


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Coronary Angioplasty

Coronary angioplasty is the reopening of blocked vessels to the heart, using a thin catheter threaded through the vessels. While it is a surgical procedure, it is not "open heart surgery."

Learn more about coronary angioplasty.

Coronary angioplasty procedures are performed at these Sutter-affiliated hospitals:


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Cardiac Bypass Surgery

Also called "open heart surgery," this procedure replaces blocked arteries to the heart with veins taken from other areas of the body.

Learn more about bypass surgery.

Sutter hospitals have some of the best outcome data nationally for patients receiving bypass surgery. You can have the procedure done at these facilities:


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Off-Pump Bypass Surgery

This relatively new technique provides coronary artery bypass surgery without the need to stop the heart and use a heart/lung machine during the operation.

Learn more about off-pump bypass surgery.

Six of our Northern California Hospitals now offer this new technique:


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Heart Failure, Artificial Heart, Transplantation

For those with end-stage heart disease, there are several options, including heart transplant.

Learn more about heart failure, and heart transplant.

Two of our hospitals provide extensive programs for those with end-stage heart disease, and heart transplant surgery.


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