For Your Education
Dr. Gonzalez specializes in Interventional Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography and General Cardiology and is certified to conduct Computed Tomography Angiography (CTAs):
Interventional Cardiology involves intervening to open blocked or clogged arteries to improve blood flow to and from the heart. It is an important treatment for patients with disease of the heart, blocked vessels, and coronary artery disease. Interventional Cardiology helps relieve symptoms and allows patients to become more active.
Nuclear Cardiology uses noninvasive techniques to assess myocardial blood flow, evaluate the pumping function of the heart, and visualize the size and location of a heart attack.
Echocardiography is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart. An echocardiogram provides single-dimensional images that allow for accurate measurements of the heart chambers. It also offers two-dimensional images capable of displaying a cross-sectional "slice" of a beating heart, including the chambers, valves and the major blood vessels that exit from the left and right ventricles.
Computed Tomography Angiography (CTAs)
is an examination that uses X-rays to visualize blood flow in the arteries and veins. CTA's combine the use of X-rays with computerized analysis of the images.
What is Angioplasty?
A catheter is placed in the artery through the area that is partially blocked and a balloon is inflated to restore blood flow through the artery.
What is a Stint?
A stint is a tiny, flexible wire mesh tube that is permanently placed to keep the artery open.
- Some Symptoms of Heart Attack:
- Chest pressure, fullness, discomfort or squeezing in the center of chest
- Pain in shoulder, neck or arms
- Sweat and discomfort in your chest, light headed, faint, sick to your stomach
- Shortness of breath
