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What is the difference between a cardiac intervention and a cardiac diagnostic procedure?
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Reconnaissance: A cardiac diagnostic procedure is a reconnaissance mission to find out what's wrong. A cardiac intervention is used to fix it. Intervention usually consists of angioplasty (balloon dilitation) with or without placement of a stent in the dilated coronary artery.
Answered 3/10/2013
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