Cardiac Catheterization.
A procedure in which a thin tube (catheter) is threaded through a blood vessel to the heart. Allows direct measurement of pressures inside the heart and injection of contrast dye to visualize the coronary arteries (coronary angiography).
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What is cardiac catheterization?
A procedure in which a thin tube (catheter) is threaded through a blood vessel to the heart. Allows direct measurement of pressures inside the heart and injection of contrast dye to visualize the coronary arteries (coronary angiography).
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