Word: angiogram
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...month later, I returned to the hospital for an angiogram, thalium scans and other tests. The thinking then was that the new vessels would grow in the first month--or not at all. The tests detected no new vessels. Failure. I reverted to Plan A and resigned myself to the prospect of, at best, a much restricted life...
...Moscow reported that Boris Yeltsin was undergoing a normal follow-up to his 1996 heart-bypass surgery. In fact, he underwent a sophisticated new heart scan called a C.T.-angiography, a painless, noninvasive test that is less risky than a conventional angiogram and that can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: they wanted to use the scanner--which can tell if a bypass graft has closed up--on Yeltsin. Imatron...
...KREMLIN: On Dec. 19, Moscow reported that Boris Yeltsin was undergoing a normal follow-up to his 1996 heart-bypass surgery. In fact, he underwent a sophisticated new heart scan called a C.T.-angiography, a painless, noninvasive test less risky than a conventional angiogram, and which can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: They wanted to use the scanner ? which can tell if a bypass graft has closed...
...angiogram is still the most important diagnostic tool, but now doctors also have an array of safe, "noninvasive" tests at their disposal. Among them...