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A member asked:
As a diagnostic procedure, a catheter (thin tube) can be inserted into a heart chamber and the pressures there, true?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
True: You've described a "heart catheterization" exactly as it would appear on the consent form! (i know you've run out of room: the rest of the line is, "and the pressures are measured there.").
Answered 8/20/2013
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