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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).

Related Terms

Related glossary terms.

Coronary Angiography
An X-ray imaging procedure that uses contrast dye injected through a catheter to visualize the in...
PCI
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, also called coronary angioplasty with stenting. A catheter-ba...
Right Heart Catheterization
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