Cardiac Catheterization Treatments


Heart catheterization helps diagnose disease affecting the function of the heart's muscles, walls and valves as well as the coronary arteries that feed blood to the heart.

Catheterization paired with angiography can be used in blood vessels outside the heart as well. For example, a catheter may be threaded into your carotid artery for a carotid arteriography to see the blood vessels that lead to the brain.

Often, doctors use the terms cardiac catheterization, angiography and arteriography to mean the same thing.

The For Patients section of this website has instructions for preparing for cardiac catheterization, angiography and electrophysiology studies.

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