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2. Angioplasty - Wikipedia

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   Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.

3. Aortic valvuloplasty - Wikipedia

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   Aortic valvuloplasty, also known as balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), is a procedure used to improve blood flow through the aortic valve in conditions that cause aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve. It can be performed in various patient populations including fetuses, newborns, children, adults, and pregnant women.

4. Balloon pulmonary angioplasty - Wikipedia

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   Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an emerging minimally invasive procedure to treat chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in people who are not suitable for pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) or still have residual pulmonary hypertension and areas of narrowing in the pulmonary arterial tree following previous PTE.

5. 'It's working': Patient gets new angioplasty treatment at ...

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   Ohioans can now receive paclitaxel during a balloon angioplasty, a treatment designed to prevent scar tissue from forming inside an artery stent. 'It's working': Patient gets new angioplasty ...

6. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Also known as heart bypass surgery, CABG is a type of open heart surgery that improves blood flow to the heart. During the procedure, a surgeon connects healthy blood vessels from one part of the ...

7. Reperfusion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Surgeries performed may be minimally-invasive endovascular procedures such as a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), which involves coronary angioplasty. The angioplasty uses the insertion of a balloon and/or stents to open up the artery. [1] Other surgeries performed are the more invasive bypass surgeries that graft arteries around blockages.