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A coronary angiogram can help your cardiologist look for blockages in your coronary arteries. X-ray images from your procedure will help your provider make a diagnosis and decide if you need medicine, a stent or surgery. Plan on spending a few hours at the hospital for the procedure and recovery.

You may need a coronary angiogram when:

  • Your stress test or electrocardiogram (EKG) wasn’t normal.
  • Your provider diagnoses you with a heart attack, a problem with a heart valve, or heart failure.
  • You have heart surgery coming up and your provider thinks you may have coronary artery disease.
  • You have chest pain (angina) that recently started or has changed in some way.
  • You’re having unusual chest discomfort or shortness of breath, but other tests don’t show anything wrong.

Your doctor may recommend that you have a coronary angiogram if you have:

  • Symptoms of coronary artery disease, such as chest pain (angina)
  • Pain in your chest, jaw, neck or arm that can't be explained by other tests
  • New or increasing chest pain (unstable angina)
  • A heart defect you were born with (congenital heart disease)
  • Abnormal results on a noninvasive heart stress test
  • Other blood vessel problems or a chest injury
  • A heart valve problem that requires surgery
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