INTRODUCTION Flashcards
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guide doctors as they diagnose and treat certain problems with blood vessels and lymph vessels throughout the body
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOGRAPHY
other term for IV radiography
Image-guided therapy
Modalities used for IR
X-ray, CT, ultrasound
year of ANGIOGRAPHY
1930
EARLY 1960s discovery of insertion of needle entering selected coronary arteries through the arm
MASON JONES
what was discovered in early 1960s
TRANSBRACHIAL SELECTIVE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
who developed transfemoral administration
MELVIN JUDKINS
insertion of needle in artery through thigh.
TRANSFEMORAL
Who discovered the examination of the heart
CHARLES DOTTER
What did Charles Dotter discovered
CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
give 3 examples of imaging procedures
- ANGIOGRAPHY
- AORTOGRAPHY
- ARTERIOGRAPHY
- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
- MYELOGRAPHY
- VENOGRAPHY
examination of the blood vessels
ANGIOGRAPHY
examination of the largest artery of the heart
AORTOGRAPHY
visualization of the heart and its vessels
CARDIA CATHETERIZATION
MYELOGRAPHY is the Examination of the
Spinal Column
VENOGRAPHY is the examination of
veins
3 examples of interventional procedures
STENT PLACEMENT
EMBOLIZATION
INTRAVASCULAR STENT
THROMBOLYSIS
BALLOON
ANGIOPLASTY
ATHERECTOMY
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Arteriostenosis means
narrowing of arteries
insertion of a small mesh tube to widen the narrowing vessels or arteriosclerosis
STENT PLACEMENT
: procedure where there is blocking of on or more blood vessels
EMBOLIZATION
For arterial closure
intravascular stent
abnormal formulation of blood clot
thrombolysis
preventing flow of blood
BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY
atherectomy is the Removal of
ATHEROSCLEROSIS