Retrograde catheterization showed a pulmonary-capillary-left-ventricle diastolic gradient of 13 mm. of mercury, a calculated valve area of 1.0 square centimeter and no regurgitation at angiography.

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Data from a large US registry show that most patients undergoing diagnostic catheterization as part of a cardiac assessment prior to noncardiac surgery are asymptomatic and approximately one in five ...

Today, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an update to its first-of-its-kind 2012 paper outlining best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Noninvasive coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a cost-effective alternative to invasive cardiac catheterization in the care of patients who have positive stress test results but a less ...

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

When I recommend that a patient needs coronary angiography (synonyms: heart catheterization, coronary angiogram, cardiac catheterization, or simply “cath”) I take a moment to bring up the risks of the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Revascularization treatment guided by fractional flow reserve calculated from an angiogram yielded similar outcomes as that guided by direct pressure wire measurement in randomized ...

Image shows origin of LMA, LAD and circumflex—including first and second diagonal branches of the LAD and marginal branch of the circumflex. [Click here to view a larger version.] (Source: GE ...