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… time test measures how long it takes for food to travel through the digestive tract . After you chew and swallow … . After your food leaves your stomach, it is squeezed through your small intestine, where nutrients are absorbed … and becomes stool (feces). Stool is expelled from your body through your anus. The time it takes for food to travel from …
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… During the test, a dye ( contrast material ) is put through a thin tube. That tube is put through the vagina and into the uterus. Because the uterus … a steady beam of X-ray ( fluoroscopy ) as the dye passes through the uterus and fallopian tubes. The pictures can …
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… on your child's body. Then the doctor moves the catheter through the blood vessel to the heart. The doctor may use … The doctor can take X-ray pictures of the dye as it moves through your child's heart and blood vessels. If the doctor … is going to repair a heart problem, special tools are moved through the catheter to the heart. The doctor uses these …
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… tracer is injected into a vein in your arm. It travels through your blood and into the lungs. Pictures from this … flow to part of a lung. Look at the flow of blood or air through the lungs. See which parts of the lungs are working … may want to pump enough breast milk before the test to get through 1 to 2 days of feeding. The radioactive tracer used …
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… is put into a vein ( IV) in your arm. The tracer moves through your blood and into the salivary glands. A special … may want to pump enough breast milk before the test to get through 1 to 2 days of feeding. The radioactive tracer used … of the test. Most of the tracer will leave your body through your urine or stool within a day. So be sure to …
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… or fertility problems. The doctor will guide a lighted tube through the cervix and into the uterus. This tube is called … your uterus with the scope. The doctor may also put tools through the scope to treat a problem. During this procedure, … or abnormal bleeding. Your doctor can pass heated tools through the hysteroscope to stop the bleeding. See if a …
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… cuts are called incisions. The doctor puts a lighted tube through incisions in your belly. This tube is called a scope. Then the doctor puts special tools through the tube to do the surgery. The surgery may be done … will empty your bladder. You will get fluids and medicine through an intravenous (IV) in a vein in your arm. You may …
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… a thin, flexible plastic tube called a catheter is placed through the urethra into the bladder. A contrast liquid flows through the catheter to fill the bladder. X-rays are taken … up toward the kidneys from the bladder instead of going through the urethra and out of the body. Check for …
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… test that uses high-pitched sound waves that are sent through a device called a transducer. The device picks up … and stress echocardiograms. A Doppler echo shows blood flow through the heart and blood vessels. It can be done during … echocardiogram. It is used to look at how blood flows through the heart chambers, heart valves, and blood vessels. …
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… into the bladder . From the bladder, the stone passes through the urethra and out of the body in urine. Passing a kidney stone through a ureter or the urethra may be painless or it may … may be told to collect the stone by straining your urine through a fine-mesh strainer or through fine gauze. Your …
