Sentences with phrase «of balloon angioplasty»

However, the use of balloon angioplasty to widen narrowed passages is not covered, nor is surgery to the branches of the aorta.

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Cardiologists use guide wires like Tatara's to facilitate the placement of stents or balloon dilatation catheters during coronary angioplasty procedures.

Despite the advent of a new generation of stents, patients with multiple narrowed arteries in the heart who received coronary artery bypass grafting fared better than those whose arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty and stents in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

In one procedure called a coronary angioplasty, a surgeon inserts and inflates a tiny balloon inside a blocked or narrow artery to widen it and allow blood to flow through to the heart thereby decreasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

Typically, an individual experiencing a heart attack is rushed to the hospital where doctors use imaging techniques such as angiography to determine the site of the blood clot, prep the patient, and then perform an artery - opening interventional cardiac catheterization, also known as balloon angioplasty and stenting.

The balloon angioplasty, in addition to opening the artery can lead to smooth muscle cell proliferation, similar to formation of scar tissue, known as neointimal hyperplasia.

«Traditional balloon angioplasty is plagued by high incidence failure, restenosis [recurrence] and inability to elevate the patient's symptoms,» said lead researcher Dr. Robert A. Lookstein, associate director of Mount Sinai's division of interventional radiology.

Balloon angioplasties open arteries blocked with plaque, restoring the flow of lifesaving blood and oxygen to the heart.

Prepare patients for cardiac catheterization, balloon angioplasty, and implantation of pacemakers.