Sentences with phrase «need angioplasty»

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.

Anyone with words in their heart would need an angioplasty, you dolt.

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In addition, the researchers found patients receiving angioplasty were twice as likely to need repeat revascularization and more than 1.8 times as likely to have a heart attack as patients who received bypass.

Going forward, researchers said additional large randomized trials are needed to clarify whether intravenous beta blocker treatment before angioplasty offers any benefit for STEMI patients.

In these cases, interventions such as angioplasty or bypass are often needed, and quickly.

«There's often no need for angioplasty.»

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