Angioplasty
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If you have coronary artery disease, the arteries in your heart are narrowed or blocked by a sticky material called plaque. Angioplasty is a procedure to restore blood flow through the artery.
The doctor threads a thin tube through a blood vessel in the arm or groin up to the involved site in the artery. The tube has a tiny balloon on the end. When the tube is in place, the doctor inflates the balloon to push the plaque outward against the wall of the artery. This widens the artery and restores blood flow.
Doctors may use angioplasty to
- Reduce chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart
- Minimize damage to heart muscle from a heart attack
Each year more than a million people in the United States have coronary angioplasty.
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Angioplasty - What Is Balloon Angioplasty Video
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Cardiology Article | Angioplasty
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British Heart Foundation - Angioplasty
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Angioplasty: Bypass beats angioplasty for severe heart disease - latimes.com
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Angioplasty: Bypass beats angioplasty for severe heart disease - latimes.com
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Stroke: Surgery Safer Than Angioplasty?
webmd.com — “Surgery is safer and slightly more effective than balloon angioplasty for preventing strokes, new research shows.” View full resource at webmd.com
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Optical imaging technique for angioplasty
physorg.com — “A new optical imaging technique described in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, holds the potential to greatly improve angioplasty, a surgery commonly performed to treat patients with a partially or completely blocked coronary artery ...” View full resource at physorg.com
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