Aster Hospitals, Bangalore offers premium cardiac diagnostic tests like the Intravascular ultrasound. Special cardiologists and interventional radiologists of the cardiac department of Aster CMI, carry out this test in order to work in conjunction to provide the most ideal diagnosis and treatment plan. The IVUS is a cardiac diagnosis test that utilises sound waves to evaluate the coronary arteries that supply oxygenated blood to the heart and to assess stenosis.
Apart from the coronary arteries, this test can also be used to evaluate other blood vessels. Some other names of this procedure are:
- Endovascular ultrasound
- Intravascular echocardiography
- Coronary intravascular ultrasound
IVUS is a procedure that is used to understand the degree of stenosis (narrowing) of an artery by providing visual images of the lumen (inside of the blood vessel) and the cholesterol that is loaded with white blood cells (atheroma) within the artery wall.
