Various Angioplasty techniques like Rotablation and Intra Vascular Lithotripsy had reduced the need of Bypass surgery in calcium deposited and hard coronary artery blocks. (Image Credits: Pixabay) ...

This surgical procedure is particularly helpful for people with atherosclerosis or coronary heart disease. Angioplasty is a minimally invasive procedure used to widen narrowed or blocked arteries.

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.

Both the angiogram and angioplasty are useful tools when diagnosing and treating blockages and other heart issues. Both procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and are minimally invasive. If ...

The PGIMER added one more feather to its cap when a complex coronary angioplasty procedure was transmitted live from the catheterisation lab, Advanced Cardiac Centre (ACC), to a reputed interventional ...

City-based cardiologist Shirish Hiremath performed live demonstration of four difficult CTO (Chronic total occlusion) angioplasty procedures for India Live 2011 - a national course on Percutaneous ...

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