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Cardiac catheterization involves threading a narrow, flexible tube — called a catheter — through the blood vessels to the heart. The catheter helps create images of the heart and arteries and measures the heart's performance. It also is used to introduce instruments and other materials to repair the heart.

Most patients are referred to the catheterization lab by their primary care doctors. After a referral is received, our staff in Interventional Cardiology will contact you to schedule an appointment for an evaluation by one of our doctors.

If you wish to contact us directly to schedule an appointment, please call nurse Laura Kee at (415) 353-3958 or contact her by email at kee@medicine.ucsf.edu.

Patients are evaluated in the Cardiology Clinic:
Cardiology Clinic
350 Parnassus Ave., Suite 300, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0327

Catheterization is performed in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory:
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
505 Parnassus Ave., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0130
Phone (415) 353-1046