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Montefiore’s Weiler Division is the only hospital on the East Coast to have the advanced technology.
"It is a vast improvement over previous diagnostic systems in both speed and precision, and will be of great benefit in patient care," said Scott Monrad, M.D., director of Montefiore’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. “The technology is remarkable. Using a 3-D digital recreation of the inside of the patient's blood vessel, for example, we can take a video trip through the inside of an artery in the leg, spot a site severely narrowed by plaque build-up and, in the same session, perform a balloon angioplasty to correct the problem.”
“The interventional cardiology techniques are not new,” said David L. Brown, M.D., associate director of the Cardiovascular Division at Montefiore. “The precision of the digital imagery is what makes the system unique. It eliminates the "shadow imagery" of surrounding tissues and bones through a process called digitally subtracted fluoroscopy, and highlights only the blood vessels.”
The new system can also recreate images of the outside of blood vessels, spin the images and spot the exact location of a bulge, or aneurysm, which can then be corrected. The highly refined digital images can be used at the Montefiore site or transferred onto a CD-ROM and used by a patient's personal physician.
The cardiology suite is housed in a newly renovated, patient friendly space at Weiler. The technology centerpiece, the Advantx LCV+ interventional angiography system, is manufactured by GE Medical Systems.
Montefiore Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in patient care, education, research and community service. It serves as a tertiary care referral center to patients from New York and around the world. The medical center encompasses two acute care hospitals, two new ambulatory care specialty centers, a network of 25 primary care offices in the Bronx and Westchester, and one of the nation 's largest home health agencies.
The Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center provides a full range of services, from diagnostic procedures to interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery and rehabilitation. Montefiore’srecently designated Heart Transplant Center is one of only five such centers in New York State.
Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, ranks among the top one percent of all US hospitals based on its investments in medical innovation and cutting-edge technology.
Montefiore invests more in order to enable compassionate, personalized care and the most positive outcomes for patients and their families in New York, the tri-state area and beyond.
Montefiore’s unique combination of ‘state-of-the-art’ technology with ‘state-of-the-heart’ medical and nursing care in a teaching and research environment provides patients with access to world-class medical experts, the newest and most innovative treatments and the best medical center experience anywhere.
This 1,062 bed medical center includes the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, the Jack D. Weiler Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, a large home healthcare agency and a 21-site medical group practice located throughout the Bronx and nearby Westchester.
Montefiore treats all major illnesses and has distinguished centers of excellence in cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children's health, women's health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties. Montefiore Medical Center focuses on providing family-centered healthcare in a nurturing environment that extends well beyond hospital and clinic walls.
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