angiograms

A contrast dye is infused into the catheter that outlines blood flow on X-ray motion pictures, known as angiograms or arteriograms.

Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

A contrast dye is infused into the catheter that outlines blood flow on X-ray motion pictures, known as angiograms or arteriograms.

Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

Docs can also view images from lab tests such as angiograms on their computers, even when they're at home, facilitating quick, informed decisions.

GET READY TO GET WIRED 2007

• A lack of interventional radiology for treatment and diagnostic purposes, such as angiograms, which staff said meant some children were being operated on unnecessarily.

British Blogs 2009

The subspecialty field of interventional radiology performs numerous imaging-guided minimally invasive procedures, such as angiograms, CT-guided or ultrasound-guided biopsies of masses, aspirations of abscesses, and radiofrequency ablation of cancers.

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NEW YORK — A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

Study Suggests Too Many Invasive Heart Tests Given The Huffington Post News Team 2010

That research aims to collect not only patients' angiograms and other medical records but also DNA samples to look at the genetics of SCAD and patterns of the disease among study participants that might reveal clues about why it occurs and who is at risk.

When Patients Band Together Ron Winslow 2011

Called cardiac catheterization, it is used to perform angiograms that detect blockages in arteries and deploy stents to prop open treated vessels that provide the critical blood supply to the heart's muscle.

Wrist May Be Route to Safer Heart Treatment Ron Winslow 2011

"The only reason we know about the syndrome now is because people presenting with heart attack symptoms can have coronary angiograms very soon after their chest pain begins."

You can die of 'broken heart syndrome' 2012

In one study, Canadian researchers compared CT scans of the coronary arteries, which use multiple X-rays to create three dimensional images of the heart, to the “gold standard,” coronary angiograms, in which doctors thread a tube from the groin into the coronary arteries and inject a dye to make blockages visible on an X-ray.

Heart-imaging tests: When a picture isn’t worth a thousand words 2011