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Who Needs a CT Coronary Angiogram?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

CT coronary angiogram can be done as an outpatient test, in the X-ray department. As of now CT angiograms cannot replace conventional coronary angiography while planning procedures like balloon angioplasty. Veins are blood vessels returning deoxygenated blood to the heart.

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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Based on these results, Dormu performed a percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty and a mechanical atherectomy and stenting of the right superficial femoral artery and stenting of the right superficial femoral artery. Dr. Dormu also performed a mechanical atherectomy of all three tibial vessels.