Sentences with phrase «clearing angioplasty»

She had an artery - clearing angioplasty, which brought a healthy flush back into her face (it had a grayish tint due to lack of blood flow.)

Mike Boscia of San Diego is a former helicopter assembler who has had 15 artery - clearing angioplasties, 15 stents implanted to prop open clogged arteries, and a quintuple bypass.

Not exact matches

In the new study, patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk of one of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypass.

Angioplasty is performed to clear blocked arteries in more than 1 million people in the United States each year.

But these drugs do not appear to help patients who haven't had a heart attack or have heart failure, even if they did need angioplasty — surgery to clear a blocked artery that caused chest pain, Parikh and his colleagues report.

They also can help ease chest pain in people with a partially blocked artery who haven't undergone angioplasty, the procedure used to clear a blockage, said Bhatt.

In order to reopen the arteries and clear the blockage, surgeons perform angioplasty in which they insert a tiny wire mesh tube called a stent.