angiography
/ˌandʒɪˈɒɡrəfi
/noun [mass noun]
Radiography of blood or lymph vessels, carried out after introduction of a radiopaque substance.Pre-operative angiography and embolisation was carried out....
- As with most procedures done on your heart and blood vessels, coronary angiography does pose some risk.
- Current methods of viewing these lesions include endoscopy and catheter angiography.
Derivatives
angiographer
- The radial approach provides angiographers with a technique for vascular access when femoral access is contraindicated or cannot be obtained.
- The extent of coronary artery disease was assessed from cineangiograms by experienced angiographers without knowledge of the serum homocysteine concentrations.
- He was one of the first clinical angiographers in Britain and he established a superb service, which he led with courtesy and diagnostic excellence.
angiographic
- Some clinicians require unequivocal angiographic proof of pulmonary embolism before they will begin thrombolysis.
- With the patient under mild intravenous sedation and local anesthesia, a small angiographic catheter is introduced into the femoral artery and guided into the left uterine artery.
- In case of massive, lifethreatening pulmonary thromboembolism the clot can be sucked out through a large catheter via the percutaneous angiographic route.
angiographically
- In one series of angiographically confirmed pulmonary embolism, 13% of patients had syncope.
- Myocardial infarction with angiographically normal coronary arteries is a life-threatening event with many open questions for physicians and patients.
- One to 12% of individuals with myocardial infarction who undergo coronary angiography are found to have angiographically normal coronary arteries.