Groin Angiogram Procedure

As a contrast agent iodine dye is injected x ray.

Groin angiogram procedure. What you can expect before the procedure. In the traditional procedure non ct angiogram a flexible tube catheter is threaded through your groin or arm to your heart or coronary arteries. To perform a traditional angiogram a doctor inserts a long narrow tube called a catheter into an artery located in the arm upper thigh or groin. The iodine dye is then injected into the catheter.

Doctor begins a coronary angiogram procedure by simply inserting a thin hollow type of tube or a small catheter of 2mm to 3mm diameter through the patient s skin within the artery either in the arm or in the groin. To perform the procedure. Before your angiogram procedure starts your health care team will review your medical history. Activity after your procedure.

If you are treated with angioplasty and stenting the catheter used to open a block or narrowed artery and in some cases to place a stent is inserted in one of two arteries the femoral which is in the groin area or the radial artery which is in the wrist. The doctor then passed a wire through the catheter to the blockage and a balloon catheter was pushed over it. The catheter is then carefully guided into the area that has to be examined such as heart lungs brain and so on. When the angiogram.

Increased pain or discomfort around the wound signs of infection such as redness drainage or fever any changes in temperature or color of the leg or arm that was used for the procedure bleeding that continues after you have applied 2 3. From one treatment site areas all over. Angioplasty performed from the radial artery is also called transradial angioplasty. A cut is made over one of the patient s arteries usually near the groin or inside of the elbow or even wrist according to the need to insert the angiogram catheter.

If the angiogram catheter was put in your leg do not use stairs for a few days after your angiogram. If you have known coronary artery disease your doctor might recommend the traditional approach because you can also receive treatment during the procedure. X rays were used to guide the catheter up to the area of the blockage. Rest for the remainder of the day of your procedure.

If you need to cough support the area where the catheter was inserted with your hand. Doctors perform the procedure of coronary angiogram with the help of a local anesthesia as well as intravenous sedation to maintain the comfort level of the patients. After access is established catheters thin tubes and wires are threaded through the arterial system to a specific. Your doctor inserted a catheter flexible tube into your blocked artery through a cut in your groin.

In a cardiac catheterization procedure doctors insert a catheter in an artery in your wrist. They will inject contrast dye into the catheter.