How to Use angiogram in a Sentence

angiogram

noun
Definition of angiogramnext
  • Unlike colonoscopies, gastric bypass surgery, and cardiac angiograms, CPR has also been glamorized, for decades, on television and in movies.
    — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The 29 surge lines on the sides of the hood represent Brody’s 24 angiograms and five wound revisions.
    — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 27 Oct. 2017
  • An angiogram indicated a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of his head, Van Hollen said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • Since 2000, the doctors have done six angiogram procedures.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Lawrence submitted to a series of scans before and after the Conquer 100, including a CT angiogram and a stress test.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2021
  • That’s why some women suffering a heart attack often don’t get an ECG or an angiogram that would be given to a man with chest pain.
    — Michael Brooks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2015
  • Spasm can be definitively diagnosed by an EKG during the spasm, or by seeing the spasm during an angiogram.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This may be a coronary CT angiogram, which is highly sensitive and specific.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Wood, 69, suffered a stroke May 16 during a routine angiogram, said Mikulay, who also speaks for Wood’s family.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • An angiogram showed his condition was serious enough that a pacemaker was put in, said Babak Namazi who learned of his father’s health scare from family in Iran.
    — Carol Morello, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The others were treated as many people with abnormal stress tests are now: They were taken to cardiac catheterization labs for angiograms.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • At the hospital, my cardiology colleague, Dr. Andrew Johnston, took Denise to a lab to perform a test called a coronary angiogram.
    — H Lee Kagan, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
  • Coronary angiogram, where a catheter is inserted into a blood vessel (usually in your wrist or groin artery) and guided to your heart’s arteries to help your doctor search for blood flow blockages.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Without this technology, doctors would need to perform an invasive angiogram to decide whether and how to intervene.
    — Daniel E. Hurtado, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Coronary angiography, or angiogram: A healthcare provider will administer a dye through your blood vessels.
    — Donna Blass, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The other test, a CT angiogram, is usually covered by insurance but is most often done only when other tests or symptoms suggest possible blockages in the arteries that feed the heart.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Like the veins and arteries of a patient highlighted by an angiogram, the money’s crooked pathways illuminated the bloodstream of a corrupt world and the lengths to which its beneficiaries were prepared to go to protect themselves and their gains.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • In some patients, Dr. Paulus had reported arterial blockages of 60% while the government’s doctors said that the patients’ angiograms—essentially chest X-rays—showed blockage of 30% or less.
    — Kyle Clark and Andrew George, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • The system can be used on patients who are experiencing neurological symptoms and have at least a 50 percent blockage of their carotid artery as verified by an ultrasound or angiogram test.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • Joey was taking his daily anti-rejection meds and getting a semi-annual angiogram but, otherwise, living a normal, active live.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • Huntington Hospital, where Dr. Saroughian had an angiogram.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The procedure, known as multi-slice computerized tomography, does not require that a dye be injected into the bloodstream to visualize the coronary arteries, though the findings are less precise than those from a CT angiogram, which requires a dye.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Shah’s testing starts with an invasive angiogram, also called catheterization, which reveals major blockages.
    — Peggy McCarthy, Hartford Courant, 30 Aug. 2022
  • When Metwally mentioned his history and symptoms he was taken to a private room for an exam that revealed an acute myocardial infarction, requiring an angiogram in the catheterization lab, all within 45 minutes.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Standard tests, such as angiograms, that are routinely used to detect coronary artery disease cannot detect abnormalities in these smaller vessels, so more specialized diagnostic tests may be required for a diagnosis.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Furniss began occupational and physical therapy on Thursday and is scheduled to undergo an angiogram on Monday.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Judge Bunning became convinced that the whole business of using angiograms to determine the severity of arterial blockages was so subjective that no cardiologist ought to be convicted of fraud based on another cardiologist’s opinion.
    — Kyle Clark and Andrew George, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018

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