angioplasty
Information, Symptoms, Treatments and Resources
What is angioplasty?
Angioplasty is a medical procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels of the heart. These blood vessels are called the coronary arteries.
Angioplasty is not considered to be a type of surgery. It is called a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
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Alternative Names:
Balloon angioplasty; Coronary angioplasty; Coronary artery angioplasty; Cardiac angioplasty; PTCA; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; Heart artery dilatation
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I have been doing a lot of reading on angioplasty, stents and heart disease and am finding ...
Angioplasty stent PV Tachachardia - Heart Disease Community
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I had a cardiac catherization 5 days ago. i am still extremely sore in the groin, am havin...
i had a nuclear stress test a little over a week ago. my primary care physcian called to s...
Stopping stent restenosis - Heart Disease Community
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Journals about angioplasty(6)
I was in the hospital and had a medicated stent put in and an angioplasty.
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, Nov 10, 2008 03:00AM - 17 Comments
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by Lee Kirksey, MD
, Aug 02, 2008 06:23PM - 2 Comments
