4. HISTORY
1927
• Egas Moniz: Cerebral angiography
1929
• Werner Forssmann: Cardiac
catheterization
1940
• Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards:
Catheterization and hemodynamics
5. ● Initial attempts focused on non
selective contrast injections in
aortic root
● Selective injections feared with
risk of ventricular fibrillation based
on animal studies
● Transient cardiac arrest with aortic
occlusion with balloon was used to
obtain better quality images
● 1958: Accidental injection of
contrast in right coronary artery by
Dr. Mason Sones and his
associate
HISTORY
8. ● Coronary angiography remains the gold standard for
detecting clinically significant atherosclerotic coronary
artery disease.
● A procedure that uses a special dye (contrast material)
and x-rays to see how blood flows through the arteries in
your heart.
● The technique was first performed by Dr. Mason Sones at
the Cleveland Clinic in 1958
CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
9. ● To visualize coronary arteries, branches, collaterals and
anomalies
● Precise localization relative to major and minor side
branches, thrombus and areas of calcification
● To visualize vessel bifurcations, origin of side branches
and specific lesion characteristics (length, eccentricity,
calcium etc.)
GOALS
23. 1. Diagnosis of CAD in clinically suspected pts.
2. Providing peri-interventional information for
(PCI)percutaneous coronary intervention/ formerly
known as (PTCA)percutaneous transluminal coronary
angioplasty
3. Coronary anomalies
4. To exclude stenoses before non-coronary cardiac
surgery (valve surgery after 40 yrs. of age)
5. Determine patency of coronary artery bypass grafts
INDICATIONS
24. In patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute
coronary syndromes with high-risk features (e.g.,
ongoing ischemia, heart failure)
In patients with acute ST-segment elevation
myocardial infarction (STEMI)
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is
usually performed in the same procedure,
immediately after the diagnostic procedure
INDICATIONS
25. Coagulopathy
Decompensate congestive heart failure
Uncontrolled Hypertension
(CVA) Cerebrovascular accident
GI Hemorrhage
Pregnancy
Inability for patient cooperation
Active infection
Renal Failure
Contrast medium allergy
CONTRAINDICATIONS
27. Access is easiest from right side of patient due to
aortic bend
Puncture is generally done via the femoral
artery
Alternative sites include the radial and brachial
arteries of the arm
ARTERIAL PUNCTURE
30. Most frequently used access
site
Ease of access, lesser
contrast and radiation
exposure, freedom to
upgrade to bigger size
sheaths
Need for immobilization,
local site complications: main
drawback
FEMORAL
31. No need for immobilization
Lower rate of local vascular
complications
Increasingly being used as
primary access site
Slightly higher contrast and
radiation exposure with
beginners
Spasm, loops, failure to get
access may require switch to
femoral route
RADIAL
ANGIOGRAMS-The X-ray images created during angiography.
ANGIOGRAPHY-a medical imaging technique used to visualize the inside, or lumen, of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins, and the heart chambers.
Vasa vasorum are small blood vessels that comprise a vascular network supplying the walls of large blood vessels, such as elastic arteries (e.g., the aorta) and large veins (e.g., the venae cavae).
CRUX CORDIS- OR CRUX OF THE HEART IS A LATIN WORD MEANING CROSS- IS THE AREA ON THE LOWER BACK SIDE OF THE HEART WHERE THE CORONARY SULCUS AND THE POSTERIOR INTERVENTRICULAR SULCUS MEET.
CORONARY SULCUS- (THE GROOVE SEPARATING THE ATRIA FROM THE VENTRICLES)
is a minimally invasive procedure that opens blocked coronary arteries to improve blood flow to the heart muscle
STEMI is a total or nearly total blockage of a coronary artery that supplies oxygen-rich blood to part of the heart muscle. Lack of blood and oxygen causes that part of the heart to fail.
Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) is a type of involving partial blockage of one of the coronary arteries, causing reduced flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle.
Heparin injection is an anticoagulant. It is used to decrease the clotting ability of the blood and help prevent harmful clots from forming in blood vessels. This medicine is sometimes called a blood thinner, although it does not actually thin the blood.