Angiogram results

Posted by Dave on June 14, 1999 at 14:54:19
The printout of the angiogram images supplied to me by my cardiologist have numbers on them such as LAD = 93, RAD = 34... I know that LAD and RAD refers to Left and Right Anterior Descending arteries, but what do the numbers represent?
Thanks for your help.

Posted by CCF CARDIO MD - CRC on June 15, 1999 at 08:56:44
I don't know of any numbers that are routinely reported with the arteries except stenosis.  Often the heart pressures are measured during a cath but these are the pressures within heart chambers, not arteries.
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