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Has anyone ever had a Cerebral Angiogram?

Does anyone know anything about an angiogram?

  • I had a mild heart attack last week and they want to do a coronary angiogram which I think entails putting a liquid up an artery to take an x ray.This is is put in at the groin ...show more

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    It basically involves passing a long, thin, hollow tube or catheter up into the arteries, this is done under x-ray guidance, from an artery in the groin or arm. You are given local anaesthetic. The coronary arteries do not show up on a plain x-ray. A special dye will then be passed through the catheter and x-rays will be taken. You might feel a hot, flushing sensation from the dye. The dye will show up any narrowed areas or blockages in the artery on the x-ray. It does carry it's risks, but the benefits outweigh the risks. In vast majority of cases, there are no serious problems. Rarely, some people have an allergic reaction to the dye that is used to show up the coronary arteries on x-ray. Serious complications are rare, but do sometimes occur. The risk is mainly in people who already have serious heart disease.The risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying is estimated at one in every 1000 people. With the peripheral angiogram (legs) they will do the same, and look the arteries that supply blood to the lower part of the body.

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They are usually pretty straight forward and well tolerated. THere is a stroke risk, but it is usually minimal. The procedure CAN be done via an artery in the wrist. Advantages include immediate ambulation and less discomfort. Disadvantages are that it is slightly more technical. Ask your cardiologist if he does the procedure this way as well. If not, you can always seek a second opinion.

SeeDiph

I had this done a couple of years ago through the groin. I was given Valium to relax me and I just lay there and watched it on the camera. No pain, no discomfort. I had to lie flat for a few hours, then they fed me, I had a good nights sleep and went home. Top of my leg ached on standing for a couple of weeks but that was all. Good luck. No-one in the ward I was in had any ill effects at all.

Piran

Cardiac catheterization involves passing a catheter (a thin flexible tube) into the right or left side of the heart. In general, this procedure is performed to obtain diagnostic information about the heart or its blood vessels or to provide treatment in certain types of heart conditions. Cardiac catheterization can be used to determine pressure and blood flow in the heart's chambers, collect blood samples from the heart, and examine the arteries of the heart with an x-ray technique called fluoroscopy. Fluoroscopy provides immediate ("real-time") visualization of the x-ray images on a screen and provides a permanent record of the procedure. Coronary angiography is usually done in conjunction with cardiac catheterization. Before the test starts, you will be given a mild sedative to help you relax. An area of your body, usually the arm or groin, is cleaned and numbed with a local numbing medicine (anesthetic). A thin hollow tube called a catheter is placed through an artery and carefully moved up into the heart. X-ray images help the doctor position the catheter. Once the catheter is in place, dye (contrast material) is injected into catheter. X-ray images are taken to see how the dye moves through the artery. The dye helps highlight any blockages in blood flow.

gangadharan nair

I have prepared people for angiograms before. You usually need to shave patients and they need to fast prior to the procedure because it's invasive. You are right about what they are going to do during the angiogram. I don't know what the person in the next bed is talking about. Yes there is a danger of having a stroke, but none of the patient that were admitted while I was doing my clinical in the Cardiac ward had one post-procedure.

Nurse Kelly

The person who is to be next to your bed has explained properly and knwos better So take his advise God will help to overcome the disease

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