The risk of undergoing cardiography is greater in 80 year old patients than in younger patients due to decreased function of various organs and poor tolerance.
Cardiography is a minimally invasive test that examines the blood vessels supplying the heart for plaque and stenosis. Cardiography provides an important diagnostic basis for cardiovascular diseases, such as shunt lesions, cardiac insufficiency, valvular heart disease lesions, and cardiac space-occupying lesions, and it plays an important role in subsequent treatment.
If the clinical benefit outweighs the risk after evaluation, it is possible to perform cardiography even at the age of eighty. However, if the patient has severe heart failure or severe arrhythmia, in which case cardiography is not indicated, the disease should be treated first, and after the patient’s condition is controlled and stabilized, cardiography can be performed.
Severe liver and kidney dysfunction is also not suitable for the test, because after injection of contrast agent, it needs to be excreted through the kidneys, and if the liver and kidneys are dysfunctional, the contrast agent will be restricted to be discharged, resulting in damage to the body.
Although cardiography is a minimally invasive test, it still carries certain risks. You need to consider whether it is possible to do it according to your condition and your doctor’s opinion.