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Originally Posted by thortime
Thank you for posting this. I'm planning to have a venogram done as well, and the need for anesthesia and sedation makes me nervous, so it's nice to hear your stories.
Was the venogram just used for diagnosis? Or was it also used to help advise if and how the surgery should be done?
Also, have any of you done an IVUS?
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It's very mild sedation. Just calms you down a bit. Come to think of it, I didn't have any until the venoplasty. I don't think you need sedation or anesthesia for the venogram. It's a simply contrast die xray procedure.
My venogram was performed to check on the patency of vein on the non-surgical side. Since it looked fine, I'm not getting another rib-resection.
During venoplasty, they are effectively doing venograms as they go. It's used to test and retest, to see where to expand the balloon and whether it did anything useful.
Two months out I still have a small dot on my arm where they inserted the wire for the venoplasty. It's a tiny scar.