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coronary angiography

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coronary angiography
Interventional cardiology A diagnostic technique in which a radiocontrast is injected directly into the coronary arteries, allowing visualization and quantification of stenosis and/or obstruction. See Deferred adjunctive coronary angioplasty, Immediate adjunctive coronary angioplasty, Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, Primary coronary angioplasty, Rescue coronary angioplasty.


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Each year, more than 1 million people in the United States undergo coronary angiography, a procedure in which a tiny probe is threaded into the arteries leading to the heart in an effort to locate blocked blood vessels.
The text includes several outstanding chapters on altitude and cold effects, drug effects, nuclear cardiologic and echocardiologic noninvasive tests, coronary angiography, medical versus surgical management of the patient with cardiac disease, and an excellent chapter on the mechanisms by which exercise training may improve the clinical status of patients with cardiac disease.
After one year the group that followed the lifestyle modification program showed a significant overall regression of coronary atherosclerosis as measured by coronary angiography (a procedure in which dye is released from a catheter and X-rays taken of the coronary arteries).
 
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