cardiac catheterization

noun

: a medical procedure in which a thin, flexible catheter is inserted through an artery or vein (as of the arm or leg) and passed into the heart for the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions

Examples of cardiac catheterization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So his doctors eventually resorted to using cardiac catheterization, which involved threading a catheter through his blood vessels near his heart to dissolve the blood clot from the inside, Tapadia said. —Sonia Heng, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024

Prewitt regained consciousness some 24 hours later, following CPR, a dozen defibrillator shocks and a transfer to Cleveland Clinic facility with a cardiac catheterization laboratory. —Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024

The center’s specialists will include physicians with expertise in heart failure, electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization and structural heart problems. —Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024

The medical team subsequently discovered an 80 percent artery blockage — this time caused by cholesterol — and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab. —Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

cardiac catheterization

noun

: a medical procedure in which a thin, flexible catheter is inserted through an artery or vein (as of the arm or leg) and passed into the heart for the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions

Hemodynamic measurements during cardiac catheterization may be necessary to diagnose constrictive pericarditis if noninvasive methods, such as echocardiography or pericardial imaging, are not conclusive.

—Andrew Wang and Thomas M. Bashore, The New England Journal of Medicine

cardiac catheter noun

… may be repaired without open-heart surgery through the use of an umbrella-like device that is placed in the heart by a cardiac catheter.

—Andrew Skolnick, The Journal of the American Medical Association