LECOM Health has completed a first-of-its-kind vascular procedure in Western Pennsylvania. An Erie patient is now recovering
Inside LECOM’s cardiac cath lab, doctors used a new SeisMIQ device, and for one Erie patient, it could mean avoiding more serious complications.
“Is it able to go up into the artery and get right up against that calcium? It’s so difficult to expand or balloon, as we say. And then with the device, it sends energy out into the wall of the artery, kind of fracturing that calcium — making it more able so when the balloon comes in to expand. Think of a big boulder — if you were able to shock it and put little cracks all around the boulder, when you finally hit it with the sledgehammer, the whole thing kind of crumbles,” Dr. Matthew Becker, M.D., interventional cardiologist, explained…