�Procedures InMotion

Coronary Angiography

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SOURCES:

American Heart Association. Coronary angiography. Available at: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11222 Accessed July 24, 2003.

U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coronary angiography. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003876.htm Accessed July 24, 2003.

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Heart catheterization at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Available at: http://www.mayoclinic.org/heartcatheterization-jax/index.html Accessed July 24, 2003.

Last reviewed November 2003 by Sergio Waxman, MD and Richard Glickman-Simon, MD

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