Left Heart Pressure Study (Diagnostic)

• For diagnosis of various abnormalities such as:

1. Heart failure
2. Congenital structural heart disease
3. Cardiomyopathy
4. Ventriculography

• A pressure transducer is passed through the aortic arch and into the left side of the heart.
• Pressure measurements are taken along this path to measure the direct left heart pressure 
• The patient may be administered medicine that act as a stressor to the heart in order to see the effects of cardiac stress.