Next Trip to India

Unexpectedly I will be traveling on November 8th to India. My father has some health problems and need to undergo Angiography and may be an Angioplasty at Sri Chitra Institute Trivandrum on 10th Nov, 2007

What is Angiography?

Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique in which an X-ray picture is taken to visualize the inner opening of blood filled structures, including arteries, veins and the heart chambers. Its name comes from the Greek words angeion, “vessel”, and graphien, “to write or record”. The X-ray film or image of the blood vessels is called an angiograph, or more commonly, an angiogram.

What is Angioplasty?

Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of a narrowed or totally-obstructed blood vessel. These obstructions are often caused by atherosclerosis.

We really go into depth only when a situation arise. I have heard these terms very much and now a days its very common. In lay man’s language as far as I now understand is Angiography is a diagnostic procedure to find out the blocks a in the heart and Angioplasty is a procedure to clear the block and its not a open heart surgery.