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angioplasty::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
Examples of angioplasty
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Surgeons perform angioplasty on a patient at Los Robles Regional Medical Center.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Angioplasty patients, however, are often up and walking around after three days.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It works similarly to how angioplasty uses balloons to open up a blocked artery.
From the cnn.com
Think of the Fed's rate cut in September as angioplasty for the capital markets.
From the jsonline.com
However, angioplasty is a lifesaver for people who have just had a heart attack.
From the timesunion.com
A medical manufacturer asked him to make angioplasty balloon molds out of glass.
From the cnn.com
In an angioplasty, a tiny balloon is inflated to open a clogged coronary artery.
From the sciencedaily.com
A few days later, he had an angioplasty procedure to clear two blocked arteries.
From the chron.com
It reduces rates of angioplasty or prostate surgery, for instance, by 15% to 30%.
From the businessweek.com
- An operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery
- Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel; typically as a result of atherosclerosis. ...
- The use of a small balloon on the tip of a catheter inserted into a blood vessel to open up an area of blockage inside the vessel.
- A non-surgical procedure for treating diseased arteries.
- Surgical repair of a narrow or blocked blood vessel, the procedure involves temporarily inflating a tiny balloon inside the vessel to break up plaque.
- A procedure that reopens blocked blood vessels to the heart. A physician inserts a hollow tube (catheter) with a small deflated balloon in its tip into the blocked section of the artery. Then the physician inflates the balloon to widen the artery.
- Plastic surgery of blood vessels during which a balloon is passed into the artery and inflated to enlarge it and increase blood flow.
- Opening of a blocked blood vessel via a catheter.
- The use of a balloon to stretch up the narrowing in a blood vessel during an arteriogram.
