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Eglin hospital delivers unprecedented, complete cardiac care
The doctor leaned in and described to Robert Hyde what he might feel during his medical procedure. Shortly thereafter, she made a small incision to his inner thigh area. During the half-hour process, the surgical team watched the large, live-view X-ray machine as the doctor guided a long, thin, flexible green tube though Hyde’s blood vessels until reaching the left side of his heart. She searched for the presence of problems with heart function that would prevent him from having corrective heart surgery.
Lt. Col. (Dr.) Maria Lahti, the 96th Medical Operations Squadron’s chief cardiologist, manipulates a catheter under X-ray into a patient’s heart arteries during a cardiac catheterization Jan. 14 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Eglin Hospital’s newest invasive imaging procedure allows doctors to identify how well a patient’s blood flows to the artery that feeds the heart.
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