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2. Coronary stent - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] Stents reduce angina (chest pain) and have been shown to improve survival and decrease adverse events after a patient has suffered a heart attack—medically termed an acute myocardial infarction. [3] [4] Similar stents and stenting procedures are used in atherosclerosis of arterial vessels of the limbs—particularly in the legs, such ...

3. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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   Coronary angiography and angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction (left: RCA closed, right: RCA successfully dilated) Tight, critical stenosis (95%) of the proximal LAD in a patient with Wellens' warning Stent placement. A, the catheter/DES device is inserted across the lesion.

4. Angioplasty - Wikipedia

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   Another important consideration is that concomitant use of Clopidogrel and Proton Pump Inhibitors following coronary angiography is associated with significantly higher adverse cardiovascular complications such as major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction. [38]

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

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   A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow to the heart is suddenly blocked. ... This minimally invasive surgery for coronary artery disease involves your surgeon placing a ...

6. Reperfusion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Emergency bypass surgery for the treatment of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) is less common than PCI or thrombolysis. From 1995 to 2004, the percentage of people with cardiogenic shock treated with primary PCI rose from 27.4% to 54.4%, while the increase in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) was only from 2.1% to 3.2%. [ 34 ]

7. Drug-eluting stent - Wikipedia

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   Stent placement risks include bleeding, allergic reactions to the contrast agents used to visualize the coronary arteries, and myocardial infarction. With percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the requirement for emergency coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has decreased as better practices have been introduced. [81]

8. Cardiac catheterization - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart.This is done both for diagnostic and interventional purposes. A common example of cardiac catheterization is coronary catheterization that involves catheterization of the coronary arteries for coronary artery disease and myocardial infarctions ("heart attacks").

9. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   When CABG is performed as an emergency because of a myocardial infarction, the highest priority is to salvage the struggling myocardium. Before operation, an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) might be inserted to relieve some of the burden of pumping blood, effectively reducing the amount of oxygen needed by myocardium. During operation, the ...