title: Current experience with digital subtraction angiography in the community medical center.
abstract: At the community medical center, we have introduced and successfully applied digital subtraction angiography (DSA) to disease processes seen in 1,144 patients. Although there is a trade-off between increased contrast resolution and decreased spatial resolution with the DSA approach, nonetheless in many vascular beds it provides rapid, safe, and accurate disease diagnosis.
mesh_terms: D000790:Angiocardiography; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001015:Aortic Arch Syndromes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003201:Computers; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging