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مختبر القسطرةCath lab

Pulmonary angiography

A catheter brought up from the femoral vein through the right heart fills the pulmonary arteries of both lungs, or of one. Turn the C-arm and see which projection opens the middle lobe, the lingula and the lower lobe arteries.

  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Lungs
  • Liver
  • Pancreas
  • Intestine
  • Kidneys
  • Eye

Angiogram

AP 0° 0°

Seen as from the detector: in AP the patient's left is on your right, the head at the top.

The left hilum sits higher than the right: the left pulmonary artery arches over the left main bronchus, the right one runs below its upper lobe bronchus.

Segmental arteries are numbered after the segment they supply, A1 to A10, and run beside the segmental bronchus of the same number.

Projection map

RAO 90RAO 60RAO 30APLAO 30LAO 60LAO 90CRA0CAUAPAP cranialLeft lateral

3D model

Gantry

DetectorTubeRLFrom the feetDetectorTubeHeadFeetFrom the patient's right

C-arm

AP

LAO / RAO: left / right anterior oblique — the detector swung toward the patient's left or right. CRA / CAU: cranial / caudal — tilted toward the head or the feet.

Standard views

Main pulmonary artery

Right pulmonary artery (selective)

Left pulmonary artery (selective)

Anatomy: BodyParts3D, © DBCLS, CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan — the atlas's own arteries, branch by branch, with the bones and organs around them.