Glossary

Cardiac catheter

Cardiac catheter

Herzkatheter·Also: Koronarangiographie

Cardiac catheterisation is an examination in which a thin tube is advanced through a blood vessel up to the heart. This makes it possible to visualise narrowed coronary arteries and often to widen them with a stent during the same procedure.

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