Definition of angiography in English:
angiography
nounˌandʒɪˈɒɡrəfiˌændʒiˈɑɡrəfi
mass nounRadiography of blood or lymph vessels, carried out after introduction of a radiopaque substance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Pre-operative angiography and embolisation was carried out.
- Current methods of viewing these lesions include endoscopy and catheter angiography.
- The diagnosis is based on the results of duplex ultrasonography or angiography, or both.
- As with most procedures done on your heart and blood vessels, coronary angiography does pose some risk.
- Only subjects who had positive contrast echocardiography underwent pulmonary angiography.
Derivatives
noun
He was one of the first clinical angiographers in Britain and he established a superb service, which he led with courtesy and diagnostic excellence.
Example sentencesExamples
- The radial approach provides angiographers with a technique for vascular access when femoral access is contraindicated or cannot be obtained.
- Two experienced angiographers blinded to the results of the serum troponins analysis and to the patients' clinical information independently reviewed all cineangiographic films.
- The extent of coronary artery disease was assessed from cineangiograms by experienced angiographers without knowledge of the serum homocysteine concentrations.
adjectiveˌandʒɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk
Despite high procedural success and excellent angiographic results with oversized balloon catheters, the long-term clinical outcome of SVG stent implantation is suboptimal.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this procedure, the physician guides a small angiographic catheter into the uterine arteries and injects a stream of tiny particles that decreases blood flow to the uterus.
- With the patient under mild intravenous sedation and local anesthesia, a small angiographic catheter is introduced into the femoral artery and guided into the left uterine artery.
- Some clinicians require unequivocal angiographic proof of pulmonary embolism before they will begin thrombolysis.
- In case of massive, lifethreatening pulmonary thromboembolism the clot can be sucked out through a large catheter via the percutaneous angiographic route.
adverbˌandʒɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk(ə)li
Myocardial infarction with angiographically normal coronary arteries is a life-threatening event with many open questions for physicians and patients.
Example sentencesExamples
- One to 12% of individuals with myocardial infarction who undergo coronary angiography are found to have angiographically normal coronary arteries.
- The severity of their coronary artery disease as assessed angiographically was strongly associated with the serum concentration of C reactive protein.
- We achieved this objective by determining the distribution of the ACE genotypes in the general male population and comparing it with that of male patients with angiographically documented CAD and myocardial infarction.
- In one series of angiographically confirmed pulmonary embolism, 13% of patients had syncope.
Definition of angiography in US English:
angiography
nounˌanjēˈäɡrəfēˌændʒiˈɑɡrəfi
Examination by X-ray of blood or lymph vessels, carried out after introduction of a radiopaque substance.
Example sentencesExamples
- As with most procedures done on your heart and blood vessels, coronary angiography does pose some risk.
- The diagnosis is based on the results of duplex ultrasonography or angiography, or both.
- Current methods of viewing these lesions include endoscopy and catheter angiography.
- Only subjects who had positive contrast echocardiography underwent pulmonary angiography.
- Pre-operative angiography and embolisation was carried out.