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Angiography - aorta; Aortography
Risks of aortic angiography include:
This procedure may be combined with left heart catheterization.
Aortic angiography has been mostly replaced by computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) angiography.
Nicholson T, Patel J. The Aorta. In: Grainger RC, Allison D, Adam, Dixon AK, eds. Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 27.