Ventriculogram
A ventriculogram is a test done during cardiac catheterization that evaluates the main pumping chamber of your heart (left ventricle).
During a ventriculogram, your doctor injects a dye into your heart that makes the inside of your heart show up on X-ray. The images are recorded on film or on a computer.
A ventriculogram can show:
- The movement of your heart muscle as your left ventricle fills and pumps blood.
- The size of your left ventricle.
- How efficiently your left ventricle pumps blood (ejection fraction).
- How well blood flows through your heart valves (aortic and mitral valves).
| Author: | Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS Robin Parks, MS | Last Updated: September 13, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Stephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC - Interventional Cardiology | |
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