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Merit Health unveils new Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Merit Health unveils new Cardiac Catheterization Lab By Melissa Rademaker | February 12, 2021 at 5:45 PM CST - Updated February 12 at 7:16 PM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Just in time for American Heart Health month, Merit Health Wesley has opened a newly rebuilt Cardiac Catheterization Lab. A cardiac cath exam provides information on how well a patient’s heart works. It can identify problems and allow for procedures to open blocked arteries and combat other forms of heart disease.
The $1.6 million dollar lab offers state-of-the-art technology.
“It’s a high-quality imaging lab certainly,” cardiologist Allen Covin said. “One of the main benefits is there’s a lot lower radiation to the patient and to the staff, that’s probably the main benefit with the imaging and the quality.”
In 2015, when Denise Castille experienced swollen feet and then heart palpitations, she visited her doctor and a cardiologist. Both said she was fine. She wasn’t. Soon after, the then 46-year-old had a “widow-maker” heart attack, a term used to refer to a serious heart attack occurring when a major artery in the heart is blocked. It’s often called a.