As compared with thrombolytic therapy, primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in acute myocardial infarction reduces the rates of death, reinfarction, and stroke, but recurrent ...

Angioplasty and stent placement are common procedures to open arteries in the heart that are clogged. These procedures are formally known as coronary angioplasty or percutaneous coronary intervention.

The recent recognition that coronary-artery stenting has improved the short- and long-term outcomes of patients treated with angioplasty has made it necessary to reevaluate the relative benefits of ...

Patients who develop in-stent restenosis (ISR) are at a very high risk of recurrence after conventional balloon angioplasty. The use of repeat bare metal stent implantation has not made a significant ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other coronary arteries also appear to be narrowed, it is safe to wait and treat ...

A 76-year-old man who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery in 1987 had 2 saphenous vein grafts to the mid-left anterior descending and marginal branch of circumflex coronary arteries. PCI with ...

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During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...