Re: Heart scans

Port wrote:
(From www.sfgate.com):
don't have to get a catheter threaded into an artery and stay flat on
their backs for six hours of X-rays, as with the traditional, invasive
angiogram."

Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote:
Thankfully, GOD has made some of us able to perform the latter service
when indicated in 15 to 25 minutes (one King multipurpose catheter for
the entire procedure with both coronaries, any grafts, and the
ventriculogram too) instead of six hours. Laus Deo ! ! !

Yes, I wondered about that when I read it. The article was published
in March '06 but none of my Caths had me on the table for more than
about 20-25 minutes and my first one was in June '05. The six hour
Caths must have been before that time.

Port
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