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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?

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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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