Angioplasty

Angioplasty may be performed to treat:
Persistent chest pain (angina)
Blockage of one or more coronary arteries
Residual obstruction in a coronary artery during or after a heart attack ...
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Angioplasty is a therapeutic interventional radiologic technique in which a narrowed artery or vein is enlarged with the use of a balloon angioplasty catheter or a small metal stent (mesh tube).
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Angioplasty
What is angioplasty?
Angioplasty is a procedure in which your health care provider inserts a balloon catheter into a blocked artery to unblock the artery. The blocked artery may be an artery in your arm, leg, or neck.
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Angioplasty and related techniques are known as percutaneouscoronary intervention (PCI). Angioplasty is a procedure in which a narrowed section of the coronary artery is dilated with a balloon catheter.
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Angioplasty is used to widen coronary arteries that have been narrowed significantly by fatty plaques. How do you know if your arteries are narrowed or clogged?
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Angioplasty is a medical procedure in which a balloon is used to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels of the heart (coronary arteries). It is not considered to be a type of surgery. See also cardiac catheterization and angiogram.
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The coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle. The right coronary artery supplies both the left and the right heart; the left coronary artery supplies the left heart.
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Angioplasty may be recommended if the angina cannot be controlled with drugs, or if angina is limiting a person's life, or if angina is experienced at rest (it comes on when not exercising or exerting oneself).
Types of angioplasty ...
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Angioplasty. In this procedure, your doctor inserts a balloon-tipped, long, thin tube (catheter) into the blocked or narrowed part of your artery. The balloon is inflated, compressing the plaques against your artery walls.
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Angioplasty
CABG (Heart Bypass Surgery)
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photoangioplasty Investigational procedure utilizes a photosensitizer (see Antrin) to localize areas of atherosclerosis in vessels and light activation to selectively destroy the plaque without damaging the endothelium.
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Balloon angioplasty
A surgical procedure in which a balloon catheter is used to flatten plaque against an artery wall.
Coronary arteries ...
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percussion sound; percussion wave; percussor; percutaneous; percutaneous absorption; percutaneous cholangiography; percutaneous nephrostomy; percutaneous stimulation; percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography; percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; ...
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The most common procedure is angioplasty with a balloon catheter. The use of the balloon catheter often can be complicated by cracks or weakening of the walls of the vessels and may lead to rapid reclogging of the vessel.
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Some doctors recommend immediate coronary arteriography with a "game plan" to break up any blockage found with angioplasty, and if that doesn't work, to use coronary bypass surgery. This is done with the hope for a surgical "cure.
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Alternatives to surgery may include treatments such as balloon angioplasty (a similar technique to that used to open the coronary arteries, but performed on the blood vessels of the affected extremity), sometimes followed by stent implantation, ...
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AV grafts may also develop low blood flows, an indication of clotting or narrowing of the access. In this situation, the AV graft may require angioplasty, a procedure to widen the small segment that is narrowed.
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The need for bypass surgery or angioplasty was reduced by 37%, and deaths from all cardiovascular causes were reduced by 32%.
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