Coronary angiography. Surgeon injecting contrast medium into a wire catheter in the arm of a 50-year-old man during a coronary angiography examination. This procedure is used to examine a patient's coronary arteries. The wire catheter has been passed along the patient's arteries to a position near the heart. When it emerges from the catheter,the contrast medium enters the bloodstream and passes into the heart's coronary arteries,highlighting them on an X-ray. If problems such as narrowed arteries due to coronary artery disease are discovered,a coronary angioplasty treatment can be carried out to prevent a heart attack. Photographed at the American Hospital of Paris,France | |
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