Article: Earlier cardiac catheterization reduces risk of mortality in high-risk patients.

Article: Cardiac Catheterization Within 2 Days of Chest Pain ...
PR Newswire;  November 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... catheterizations on high- risk patients seeking treatment ... mortality. Cardiac catheterization is a minimally ... provided to high-risk patients in order to ... diagnostic cardiac catheterization facilities ... not receive cardiac catheterization as ...

Article: PMH Cardiac Catheterization Lab approved. (Paoli ...
PR Newswire;  October 26, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... of extending its existing cardiac catheterization services throughout its family ... purposes involving only low-risk patients. All clinically unstable ... building and equipping the new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at PMH is six ...

Article: Bangor's St. Joseph Hospital dedicates new cardiac ...
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  January 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Mooney, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The facility ... at the facility. High-risk patients still will be sent to EMMC ... invasive, expensive and rare, cardiac catheterization is now considered a fairly ...

Article: Coronary CTA versus cardiac catheterization: Where ...
Applied Radiology;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... published data. The studies were conducted on 4- and 16-slice CT scanners and enrolled a total of 944 intermediate-risk patients. Disease prevalence averaged 59% (range 31% to 81%) and was lower in studies that used consecutive enrollment (52 ...

Article: Cardiac Catheterization
Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers;      700+ words ...Cardiac catheterization Definition Cardiac catheterization (also called heart catheterization) is a diagnostic ... evaluate the heart's electrical activity. Cardiac catheterization is performed by inserting one or more catheters ...

Article: Aortic stoenosis: No more hemodynamic cardiac ...
Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2001 ;     682 words ... ... patients undergoing preoperative cardiac catheterization to assess hemodynamic severity ... reported the frequency of hemodynamic cardiac catheterization among patients referred for aortic ... The frequency of hemodynamic cardiac catheterization at Mayo Clinic decreased significantly ...

Article: Silent cerebral infarct after cardiac ...
Trials;  June 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... cerebral infarction following cardiac catheterization is rare [1, 2, 3], but silent ... endovascular interventions, including cardiac catheterization [8, 9]. In the case of coronary ... neuropsychological testing [10]. During cardiac catheterization, cerebral microembolism as detected ...