Angiocardiography: Its Use in the Diagnosis of Patent Ductus Arteriosus

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY—contrast visualization of the heart and great vessels — was first made a practical procedure by Robb and Steinberg1 in 1938. In subsequent reports these authors have described in detail their technic of employing serial roentgenograms after the rapid intravenous injection of 70 per cent Diodrast2 and, along with many others, have reported their observations in normal and pathologic cardiovascular systems. It is the purpose of this report to review briefly the clinical applications of angiocardiography, to discuss the use of this technic in a rural hospital and to report its use in the diagnosis of a case of patent . . .