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.

UK HealthCare’s Gill Heart & Vascular Institute in Lexington, Ky., has opened a new heart catheterization lab for adults with congenital heart disease and children at Kentucky Children’s Hospital, ...

Procedures included coronary angiography, left heart catheterization, right heart catheterization and/or PCI with moderate conscious sedation.

The prospective trial included 599 in- or outpatient cases of non-emergent coronary angiogram, left and right heart catheterization, or percutaneous coronary intervention at a single center in ...

Those undergoing left heart catheterization represented over 62% of the group, with the rest getting right heart catheterization. Baseline characteristics were comparable between NPO and ...

Cardiac catheterization (also called cardiac cath, heart cath, or coronary angiogram) is a procedure that allows your doctor to see how well your blood vessels supply your heart.

An angiogram, also called coronary angiography, is a part of the heart or cardiac catheterization procedures, which can be used as both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

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 ...

The CT Angiography costing $500 to $1,000 is far less than the $1,500 copay an insured patient pays for the conventional nuclear stress test or cardiac catheterization, Nikam says.

The patient population included inpatients (n = 294) and outpatients (n = 305) undergoing nonemergent coronary angiogram, left and right heart catheterization or PCI.