Modern Therapies Angiography: x ray, catheterize heart, inject radio-opaque dye to outline it: an invasive technique.
Non-invasive: nuclear medicine, a _ camera, technetium-99, radioactive emissions, image blood pool.
Also, echocardiography, CT, MRI imaging.
Surgical methods: pacemakers to correct arrhythmias, valve prosthetics, coronary artery bypass (double, triple), balloon angioplasty, laser surgery, transplantation, ventricular assist devices (LVAD).
Courtesy From : http://www.earthmends.com/learn_cancer/modern_therapy/moderntherapies.htm
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