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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. [2] The procedure is used to place and deploy coronary stents , a permanent wire-meshed tube, to open narrowed coronary arteries.
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a small mesh tube that is placed in the arteries to keep them open in the treatment of vascular disease.The stent slowly releases a drug to block cell proliferation (a biological process of cell growth and division), thus preventing the arterial narrowing that can occur after stent implantation.
The Edna M. Griffin Memorial Bridge carrying I‑235 across the Des Moines River The I‑480 bridge over the Missouri River between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Downtown Omaha, Nebraska I‑280 crosses the Mississippi River over the Baker Bridge.
The system began in 1993, when Iowa Lutheran Hospital and Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines merged, forming the state's largest provider of hospital and related health services. The organization grew to encompass eight metropolitan areas and changed its name in 2013 to reflect that it was no longer exclusive to Iowa.
1973 (as Des Moines MTA) 2006 (as DART) Headquarters: 620 Cherry St, Des Moines, IA 50309: Locale: Des Moines, IA, United States: Service area: Des Moines and surrounding communities in Polk County: Service type: Bus service, Express bus service, Paratransit, On Demand, Vanpool: Routes: 26: Stops: 1,721 [1] Hubs: 1 (DART Central Station) Fleet
The railroad of the Iowa Transfer Railway Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in Des Moines, Iowa, comprising 0.305 mile of first main track, and 3.093 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 3.398 miles of all tracks owned.
Iowa Highway 415 is a short state highway that runs mostly north-to-south in central Iowa. Iowa 415 begins at U.S. Highway 6 in Des Moines and ends at Iowa Highway 141 east of Granger. Prior to 2003, Iowa 415 extended north from Polk City and ended at Iowa Highway 17 south of Madrid.
The St. Paul and Kansas City Short Line was incorporated February 18, 1911, under the general laws of Iowa. It was organized in the interest of the carrier, by which it is controlled through ownership of its entire capital stock, for the purpose of acquiring the property of the St. Paul and Des Moines Railroad Company, and of constructing a connection between it and the carrier's line to ...