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Shockwave - a novel application of lithotripsy
was granted FDA approval for use in the coronary arteries in February and we began using it right away,” says Memorial Medical Group Interventional Cardiologist Edward Bergen, DO
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital is the first hospital in Louisiana to use a new treatment option for patients with severely calcified coronary artery disease. The new technology, Shockwave, is a novel application of lithotripsy, an approach that uses sonic pressure waves in the past to safely break up kidney stones. It’s now available to treat problematic calcium in the coronary arteries that can reduce blood flow in the heart.
Dr. Bergen was the first physician at the Heart & Vascular Center at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital to use this device. His partners, interventional cardiologists Hari Bogabathina, MD, Clay Hammett, MD, Christopher Thompson, MD, J. King White, MD, and Kevin Young, MD, will also use the new technology to treat patients.
“We have actually been using this technology on the peripheral arteries in the body since last year with great success. It recently
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