Heart disease is very common. There are different ways that heart disease can start. One option is with structural issues within the heart. Medical personnel who work in interventional cardiology are specialists with structural heart diseases. Interventional cardiology is mostly done using catheterization. In other words those in interventional cardiology will place a sheath into the femoral artery in order to help keep the heart working. The artery is the most accessible place for those in interventional cardiology to reach in order to help their patient.

Interventional cardiology doctors can also use angioplasty procedures to help with a myocardial infarction. In this method there is a tiny hole made into the major artery in order to extract clots in the coronary arteries that affect the patient.