Outpatient coronary arteriography.
A total of 12,719 outpatient coronary angiograms have been performed, using the Sones Technique, at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, over the past 14 years. A consecutive series of 5,107 of these outpatient angiograms were selected for review here. Sixty-one percent of these patients were diagnosed with coronary artery disease. No deaths occurred in this series. Only 2.22% of patients in this series had complications. Outpatient coronary angiography is a safe, cost-effective, and efficient diagnostic technique.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000792:Angiography / Q000009:adverse effects; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans