Angiogram is when the doctors go up through your groin into your heart, use some dye, and checked for blocked arteries. Sometimes they check the pressure in the valves. A mild sedative is given before to relax you. It will definitely show if there is anything wrong with your heart and it is worth it. If they see blocked arteries they may choose to stent them to keep them open at that time.
Sounds to me that you need to have an angiogram to find out exactly what is going on with your heart. There could be plugged arteries or arteries just spasming from the cholesterol build up which will cause chest pain, feeling like you are having an heart attack. Also, the angiogram will tell the real truth how your valves are doing. Echo's are just a tool and sometimes the angiogram comes up with something totally different than what was thought on the Echo.
Which one is the more accurate measure that needs to be used for making cardio-management decisions (for example, do I need an CRT or a CRT/ICD, etc.?) My estimated is 35% and calculated is 29%; Lately I do have mild Atrial Arrithmia that just developed after an episode of 2-wk long sever cough of upper chest; the cough has been completely gone for about 6-8 weeks now.
25 mg and further advised coronary angiogram in next visit..but on 01/08/13 and 03/08/2013..she vomited and she used to vomit occasinaly ,not feeling hungry for taking food local doctors has advised her domperidone mixed with omaprazole tablet but..last night on 4.08.2013 she again vomited consequently i consulted local doctors and advised to take onden 4 ( ondesterone ) ...she is not vomiting for the time being.. kindly help whether she may be referred to some other physician for that.
hello,,and thnx you,,,the chest pains feel like a squeezing ,,heaviness in the middle of my chest under my sternam,,i have had tests,,and the cardios say my heart seems ok,,i had an angiogram and my arteries were clear,,,but they thought i had enlarged right atrium,,prinz metal angina,,irregular heart rythyms in both vetriculs an artriums,,but all say it wouldnt cause my breathless ness or chest pain,,i have had my spine worked on,,and i have taken drugs to help stomach acids,,but the chest pain
If she is open to changing the food she eats read up on the research of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. I followed his advice to lower my cholesterol and did so within 3 weeks of eating healthy. His research is very impressive.
You better check with your doctors, I am not sure about the potential damage due to the radiation dose that you will take during the procedure.
Also if they discover blockages in your coronaries, I do not know about the risk of the medication that you will need.
I believe it is down to the cardiologist and what they are used to using. I have been to both types of cardiologists. With regards to valves, this is not the standard for evaluating leaks. The standard for evaluating regurgitation is the echocardiogram and it's cost effective. The 64 slice is used as a complement to the echo, as it shows the anatomy of the valve in great detail, showing why the leak is existing.
1) One aretery is 50-60 percent blocked or lesion is what is says on the paperwork. There were 2 other ateries that had a 30 percent lesion on them. This was all on the left side, and the right side was negative (almost like they never looked at that side.) All other heart functions were normal or at least that is what it appears. The surgeon who did the cath, never came and talked to me.
Coronary angiogram is being done for the search of a coronary lesion , so that it can be corrected simultaneously with the valve surgery. If your husband has significant stenosis with some symptoms called ASD( Angina, syncope, dyspnoea) then surgery is good choice. If his ejection fraction is reduced as seen in echocardiography report then surgery is must.
There are two tests commonly used for the detection of coronory artery disease i.e Thallium
Scan and Angiography.
Now adays Angiography has become very simple and the facility is available everywhere.
The doctors are still advising for the Thallium Scan test which , to my view point, is less
accurate and authentic than the angiography.
ed34 is asking some good questions, but I'm actually wondering if it is the aortic valve that is calcified and "blocked." If so, it would mean that perhaps your father needs to have the valve replaced. A blocked (the technical term is stenotic) aortic valve can't be fixed by angioplasty, if that is what is going on right now.
">>>> It is the vulnerable soft plaque between the layers of the vessel that is of principle interest and scored by a CT scan. Hard calcified plaque within the lumen presents the risk for ischemia (occluded vessel(s). That is what I was told by the doctor reviewing my CT score and supported by all sources I have read."
In which case, it would be called a 'fat scan'. There are two issues to remember. Not ALL the soft plaque oxidises and calcifies all the time.
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