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Heart Catheterization

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Definition: Procedure which includes placement of catheter, recording of intracardiac and intravascular pressure, obtaining blood samples for chemical analysis, and cardiac output measurement, etc. Specific angiographic injection techniques are also involved.  /drug eff /rad eff permitted; do not use /util except by MeSH definition; DF: HEART CATH   
See Also Pulmonary Wedge Pressure
Examples Catheter Ablation; Catheterization, Swan-Ganz 		Other names Catheterization, Heart; Catheterization, Cardiac; Heart Catheterizations; Catheterizations, Heart; Catheterizations, Cardiac; Cardiac Catheterizations; Cardiac Catheterization

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