Right-heart cardiac catherization

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A medical procedure during which a physician threads a catheter into the right side of the heart to measure the blood pressure in the right side of the heart and the pulmonary artery. The right heart's pumping ability can also be evaluated.

Mentioned in: Pulmonary Hypertension

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