Cardiac Catheterization | 合法醫療器材資訊網

What is cardiac catheterization?

In cardiac catheterization (often called cardiac cath), your doctor puts a very small, flexible, hollow tube (called a catheter) into a blood vessel in the groin, arm, or neck. Then he or she threads it through the blood vessel into the aorta and into the heart. Once the catheter is in place, several tests may be done. Your doctor can place the tip of the catheter into various parts of the heart to measure the pressures within the heart chambers or take blood samples to measure oxygen levels.

Your doctor can guide the catheter into the coronary arteries and inject contrast dye to check blood flow through them. (The coronary arteries are the vessels that carry blood to the heart muscle.) This is called coronary angiography.

These are some of the other procedures that may be done during or after a cardiac cath:

Angioplasty. In this...

Cardiac Catheterization | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Cardiac catheterization | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Cardiac Catheterization | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Cardiac Catheterization: Purpose, Procedure | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Cardiac Catheterization: Procedure | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Catheterization via femoral artery/vein (groin):. The area for inserting catheter must be stretched and non-bending. The other parts of the body may move freely. Read More

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Cardiac catheterization | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This is done both for diagnostic and interventional ... Read More

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2020年3月30日 — Cardiac catheterization is a medical procedure used to diagnose and treat some heart conditions. It lets doctors take a close look at the heart to ... Read More

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