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angiogram = heart catheterization
In Response To: not so. ()

Who said anything about angioplasty? Angiography (an angiogram) involves inserting a catheter into a blood vessel (usually a femoral vessel) and threading the catheter up the vessel into the heart where a radio-opaque dye is released to allow an X-ray image of the coronary vessels. Thus, angiography and heart catheterization are usually one and the same. Sorry, this has nothing to do with sailing.

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