Your Cardiac Catheterization: Our Guide to Understanding an Important Diagnostic Procedure

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Your Cardiac Catheterization: Our Guide to Understanding an Important Diagnostic Procedure

Published by: American Heart Association

Product Code: 50-1520

This brochure describes how this important procedure is used to examine the heart to measure pressure, take pictures of the arteries bringing blood to the heart, and assess heart function. It also includes detailed illustrations.

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