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Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique in which an X-ray picture is taken to visualize the inner opening of blood filled structures, including arteries, veins and the heart chambers. Its name comes from the Greek words angeion, "vessel", and graphien, "to write or record". The X-ray film or image o... more at Wikipedia
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Unpleasant experience. kept me too awake during it.
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I had an angiogram after my heart attack
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Worked great, no side effects. Watched the whole thing on the monitors
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Guessing they did this as well during the angioplasty.
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hope it is still working. I think the doctor was hash
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angiogram with double stent placement
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i had no side affects and it worked
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Has been successful for two years.
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nothing much to describe, I was taken into the theatre, lay on a table and had a tube inserted through my wrist, they fed this through to my heart then injected some sort of dye into my bloodstream, they found the damaged/blocked artery and fitted a stent.
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had a stent fitted in my right coronory artery.
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two stents, also.
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It showed damage to the heart. No problem with test not even bruising. Some soreness though.
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Found the blockage.It was scary but painless
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No intervenion at this stage.Found kink in an artery.
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STILL PURPLE AND SORE FROM ANGIOPLASTY IN JAN.
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No, I have not been told they can't do the stents. I have to have the angiogram before they can decide which to to, the angioplast or the bypass. That... [More] -
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I just left the Dr's office, he released me, said I can do anything I want: lift, push, carry... he even said I can help my wife with the dishes and h... [More] -
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Thanks, Thepakettle, you have made me feel enormously better. I hope they can reach the blockages while doing the angiogram; but if they are too far i... [More] -
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Sounds like you're hoping for the balloon angioplasty/stent version rather than the bypass surgery. If that's what you're getting, the worst is over.... [More] -
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Semicolon: Are you going in for angioplasty or an angiogram and possibly a stent? Fortunately I was able to have the simple one even though you would... [More]
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