Right ventricular angiography Right ventricular angiography is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of ARVD.

Angiography, since the 1960s, has been the traditional way of evaluating for atheroma.

Angiography catheters (which affects diagnostic procedures for the circulatory system and other such procedures)

Angiography does not visualize atheroma it only makes the blood flow within blood vessels visible.

However, angiography is only motion or still images of dye mixed with the blood with the arterial lumen and never show atheroma the wall of arteries, including atheroma with the arterial wall remain invisible.

Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician who developed the cerebral angiography and leucotomy, received in 1949 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he is the first Portuguese recipient of a Nobel Prize and the only in the sciences.