What are the possible decisions after cardiac catheterization?
For patients with severe angina or myocardial infarction, or those who have significantly abnormal noninvasive tests for CAD, cardiac catheterization help the physician in selecting the optimal treatment (which may include medications, balloon angioplasty, stent angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery).
Cardiac catheterization is the only test that allows accurate quantification, the extent and severity of CAD, in order to make optimal treatment decisions.
