Ischaemic heart treatment

Every year over 4,000 patients are treated at the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona for chest pain, and 40% of these are diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome.

Every year, the Cardiology Unit practises over 3,000 coronarography and 1,200 angioplasty procedures with coronary stent placement (via a catheter).

The Hospital Clínic, Barcelona is a reference centre for primary angioplasty in patients with myocardial infarction who need a coronary artery to be operated on immediately. Approximately 450 patients per year are treated under infarction code activation. The Clínic has a haemodynamic service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Acute Heart Care Unit has 20 beds; 8 for intensive care and 12 for intermediate care. 

In some cases, revascularisation needs coronary bypass surgery. At the Clínic, 300 operations of this type are done each year.

Professionals dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndrome and myocardial infarction are experts in:

• Percutaneous treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
• Placement of coronary stents.
• Cardiac surgery with coronary bypass.
• Multidisciplinary management of complex Ischaemic heart disease (Heart Team for complex ischaemic heart disease).
• Minimally invasive approach.
• Placement of cardiac assist devices.
• Cardiogenic shock treatment.
• Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treatment.
• Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (including ECMO-CPR).
• Intracoronary imaging techniques.
• Coronary physiology techniques.