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How Safe Is CITI Angeography For Angina Pain?

Hi, Mother has been diagonesed with angina pain today and doctor has advised for angeograpy and probably angeoplasty if required. I have just come to know something about CITI angeography. Can you plz advise if CITI ageography is something which I can go for to further diagonse my mother's heart problme and then if require, can go in for Angeoplasty.?
Fri, 28 Jul 2017
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Hello and welcome to health care Magic forum. CT angiography s a noninvasive procedure, very specific but not sensitive. If your mother has high suspicion of CAD then she should undergo Coronary angiogram , because even after CT angiogram she has to undergo traditional angiogram .
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How Safe Is CITI Angeography For Angina Pain?

Hello and welcome to health care Magic forum. CT angiography s a noninvasive procedure, very specific but not sensitive. If your mother has high suspicion of CAD then she should undergo Coronary angiogram , because even after CT angiogram she has to undergo traditional angiogram .