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From there, the blood leaves the heart through the aorta to be distributed throughout the body. Blood enters the heart through the superior and inferior venae cavae into the right atrium. This blood then flows through the right atrioventricular valve to the right ventricle.
To view blood flow through your heart, your doctor may inject a special dye into your coronary arteries. This is known as an angiogram. The dye is injected into the arteries of the heart through a long, thin, flexible tube (catheter) that is threaded through an artery, usually in the leg, to the arteries in the heart.