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http://www.or-live.com/StJoseph/1600 Cardiac catheterization: On Wednesday, May 16, at 4 p.m., CST, an Internet audience will have a rare chance to watch a heart care procedure as it happens. During a live webcast from Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Marshfield Clinic interventional cardiologists will perform a live cardiac catherization procedure as well as a possible angioplasty and stent placement. A physician moderator will be on hand to walk the audience through the procedure and give them the inside scoop on the crucial decisions the heart care team is making as they happen. Juan Mesa, MD; Kamilla Buddemeier, MD; Milind Shah, MD; and Shereif Rezkalla, MD, all Marshfield Clinic interventional cardiologists on staff at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, will participate in this live webcast. During a cardiac catheterization, a physician inserts a thin flexible tube called a catheter into an artery or vein in the arm or leg, and then advances the catheter into the chambers of the heart or coronary arteries. In order to view blockages in the arteries, physicians will inject a dye through the catheter and if a blockage is detected, a balloon can be inflated (angioplasty), which compresses the plaque against the artery wall and opens it. Additionally a stent, or wire mesh tube, can be deployed to hold the artery open. According to the American Heart Association, one in three American adults have at least one type of cardiovascular disease. In 2004, approximately 1.3 million cardiac catheterizations and an estimated 664,000 percutaneous coronary interventions (angioplasties and stents) were performed in the United States. In 2006, Marshfield Clinic interventional cardiologists on staff at Saint Joseph's Hospital performed more than 3,550 diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures. Physicians on staff also specialize in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, pediatric cardiology, women and heart disease as well as minimally invasive options for the treatment of heart disease. For the fifth consecutive year, Saint Joseph's has been named by Solucient as one of the nation's top 100 heart care hospitals. Being chosen as a top 100 hospital means fewer complications and better survival rates for heart patients receiving care at the Marshfield center. About our organizations The Marshfield Clinic and Ministry Health Care heart care team is a cooperative effort by two leading health care organizations working together as a single leading team. For over 90 years, this has enabled the team to deliver the very highest level of care available in the region. It is the heart care team chosen more often than any other local program, treating more of the most complex cases and conducting more research into leading edge heart care treatments. The team is made up of primary care physicians, cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, researchers and other physicians and staff located at 41 hospitals and clinics. Marshfield Clinic, founded in 1916 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, is an integrated health care delivery system consisting of 41 patient care, research and education facilities throughout Wisconsin, making it one of the largest comprehensive medical systems in the United States. Marshfield Clinic has over 720 physicians representing over 86 specialty and sub specialty medical services. The system also includes Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, the largest private not-for-profit medical research foundation in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the nation; Marshfield Laboratories; Marshfield Clinic Education Foundation; and Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., a health maintenance organization owned by Marshfield Clinic. Saint Joseph's Hospital is a 500-plus bed tertiary care teaching institution. As the largest rural referral medical center in Wisconsin, it provides health care, including all major medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties, to an ever-increasing service area in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Saint Joseph's Hospital, a member of Ministry Health Care, was founded more than 110 years ago by the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother.