Angiography

Angiography is a special X-ray procedure that takes pictures of your blood vessels.  Angiography is performed to image and diagnose diseases of the blood vessels in the body.  An interventional radiologist places a catheter, which is a a small tube, into one of your arteries and injects contrast (dye) into the vessels while taking X-rays of this area.  Angiography is now used to guide balloon angioplasty catheters and stents that stretch the walls of a narrowed blood vessel, restoring normal blood flow without surgery.

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