Joan is reviewed by an interventional cardiologist who explains she’ll need a coronary angiogram, which is performed via right radial approach. This showed critical narrowing in the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) vessel. You may wish to review the anatomy of the coronary arteries in module 1.
A drug-eluting stent is deployed to the lesion within the coronary artery.
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