The catheter has an inflatable balloon tip that temporarily blocks the pulmonary artery and allows the doctor to take pressure readings.

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The catheter has a tiny balloon at the tip that’s blown up until it touches the walls of the artery. Then it measures the pressure there.

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This can be definitively obtained by measuring the pressure with a catheter that is placed through the heart into the pulmonary artery during cardiac catheterization.