Don't eat solid food after midnight on the night before the test and don't drink any liquids 2 hours before the procedure If you are diabetic, stop taking Metformin 48 hours before and 48 hours after the angiogram. If you take short-acting insulin, do not take it the morning of the ...
The procedure is known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The doctor will take blood vessel from another part of the body and graft them onto the heart to bypass one, two, three, or more blocked coronary arteries. The procedure requires a stay in the hospital afterwards to recover. W...
Anatomical confirmation of the puncture site and evidence of any arterial disease or stenosis in the artery is detected on fluoroscopy during the procedure. Recent meta-analyses have cast doubt on the assumption that vascular closure devices are superior to mechanical compression alone and serious ...