Coronary angiography. Surgeon inserting a wire catheter through a guide catheter into an artery in a 50-year-old man's arm during a coronary angiography examination. This procedure is used to examine a patient's coronary arteries by passing the long,thin wire catheter along the patient's arteries to a position close to the heart. A contrast medium is then injected to highlight the coronary arteries on an X-ray. If problems such as narrowed arteries due to coronary artery disease are discovered,then the same procedure can be used to carry out a coronary angioplasty treatment to widen the artery and prevent a heart attack. Photographed at the American Hospital of Paris,France | |
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