| Other approaches meant to improve blood flow are angioplasty and bypass surgery. |
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| A minimally invasive alternative to carotid endarterectomy is angioplasty and stenting of a carotid stenosis. |
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| Generally in an angioplasty, doctors thread a catheter through the femoral artery. |
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| Further cases may be detected by searching for coded coronary artery operations such as bypass surgery or angioplasty. |
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| She will need a further procedure, known as an angioplasty, to clear the blockages. |
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| The methodology can prevent the frequent re-formation of plaque after angioplasty and stent implantation. |
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| The treatment of old saphenous vein graft stenosis with coronary angioplasty has a high rate of restenosis and clinical events. |
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| Like him, Leeds businessman Ian Brown, 56, was wait-listed for an angioplasty. |
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| A history of coronary artery bypass grafting or angioplasty was associated with macular degeneration. |
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| Cardiac catheterization can confirm vascular occlusion and angioplasty is frequently used to treat a localized problem. |
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| If your doctor thinks that you may need an angioplasty, you will be referred to a hospital specialist. |
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| If it is normal, you can stop the medication, otherwise interventional therapy like angioplasty or bypass surgery may solve your problem. |
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| Carotid angioplasty aids the management of fibromuscular dysplasia, radiation injury, and symptomatic restenosis after carotid endarterectomy. |
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| Past surgical history included right carotid endarterectomy, coronary stent placement, and angioplasty of his left lower extremity. |
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| Patients with coronary artery disease undergoing angioplasty should continue taking antiplatelet drugs as usual. |
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| This may require angioplasty or surgery to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels. |
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| The main concern about carotid angioplasty is the risk of stroke at the time of the procedure. |
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| The operative technique used for angioplasty in these patients is now obsolete. |
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| A successful angioplasty brings relief from angina and can make a heart attack less likely. |
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| Covers heart surgery, diagnostic catheterization, angioplasty, cataract surgery, hip and knee replacement, other day and inpatient surgeries. |
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| The following day, the pilot underwent a coronary angiography and angioplasty of the right coronary artery. |
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| For example, coronary bypass grafting and angioplasty improve blood flow to the heart for people with ischemic heart disease. |
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| Implanted during angioplasty, they shore up the walls of the newly unclogged artery. |
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| In general, there are three treatment options for coronary artery disease: medical therapy, angioplasty, or coronary artery bypass surgery. |
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| As well, the majority of the atherosclerotic lesions are found in the ostium and angioplasty alone does not sufficiently treat these lesions. |
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| I know I might have to have an intervention for my vascular condition again because venous angioplasty is often not a onetime event. |
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| A rod-like device, sometimes made of expandable metal mesh, is used to prop open a narrowed artery, typically as part of an angioplasty procedure. |
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| This is essentially an emergency angioplasty, where the blocked arteries are opened to improve the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart. |
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| For any myocardial infarction occurring during an angioplasty, the troponin rise must be more than 3 times increased. |
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| The angioplasty we speak of with Dr. Zamboni is for jugular and azygous veins. |
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| Research is underway to study a complement-inhibiting antibody fragment in angioplasty and CABG to see if this can reduce heart muscle damage. |
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| More recently, he has undergone angioplasty, cataract surgery, a hemorrhoidectomy, and prostate surgery, twice. |
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| In unstable angina pectoris, coronary arteriography may help determine whether coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass surgery is needed. |
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| As a haemostatic agent at bleeding points of suture following carotid endarterectomy with patch angioplasty. |
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| Noninvasive methods have been developed to open chronic atherosclerotic occlusions using a catheter in a procedure called angioplasty. |
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| As a nonsurgical option, coronary angioplasty is also used to unblock arteries. |
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| The goal is to eventually be able to provide invasive angiogram and angioplasty and finally to offer open heart surgery in by Afghan doctors. |
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| Same-day angioplasty occurs when the angioplasty is done immediately following the angiogram. |
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| Safe protocol is in place for investigational procedures and for balloon angioplasty. |
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| He gets an angioplasty done and he gets feeling back in his left leg and his left arm. |
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| Non-surgical techniques such as balloon angioplasty or laser, to relieve obstructions, are excluded. |
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| So why can others have angioplasty here in Canada which is a very routine procedure? |
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| Reperfusion was by angioplasty or stenting or by thrombolytic use. |
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| These results suggest that more invasive treatments such as catheter-directed thrombolysis, angioplasty, or thrombectomy are unwarranted except in selected cases. |
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| Based on your results, your doctor may decide, for instance, that you would benefit from having coronary angioplasty to help unblock clogged arteries. |
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| Vascular brachytherapy is now being used to inhibit the formation of scar tissue after a patient undergoes a balloon angioplasty of the heart for vascular stenosis. |
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| I am three months post angioplasty and still doing well. |
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| The technique empowers paramedics to read electrocardiograms and identify patients with blocked arteries for fast-tracking to angioplasty surgery. |
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| Heart Attack during coronary angioplasty is not covered unless there are diagnostic changes of new Q wave infarction on the electrocardiograph in addition to elevation of cardiac biochemical markers. |
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| For specific information on cardiac catheterization procedures, see the angiogram and angioplasty pages and the Cardiac Catheterization and Angioplasty Patient Guide. |
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| The patients took folic acid, vitamin B-12, and vitamin B-6 for six months after their angioplasty. |
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| That evidence suggested a role for fish oil in treating coronary angioplasty patients, who are at high risk of vessel reclosure. |
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| Radiation-induced coronary ostial stenosis, a case of redo coronary bypass for the restenosis following patch angioplasty. |
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| If you need to undergo an angioplasty, the cardiologist specialized in cardiac catheterization could propose it to you during the catheterization procedure and perform it at the same time. |
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| He says a major study last year in the United States revealed that 34 percent of patients who underwent angioplasty still reported chest pains 12 months later. |
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| Citizens in the Ottawa area are served reasonably well in terms of wait times for some medical procedures, such as angioplasty and neurological cancer surgeries. |
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| According to aviation medical examiner's files, neither this medical condition, nor the angioplasty performed on 31 May 1994, had been recorded in the pilot's file, and were never reported by the pilot. |
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| Increases in serum unbound free fatty acid levels following coronary angioplasty. |
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| This innovative approach may have the potential to reduce the number of amputations and potentially to replace invasive methods like angioplasty and surgery. |
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| Stents improved the procedure by combating the tendency of many vessels to reclose quickly after angioplasty. |
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| Typically peripheral angioplasty has been reserved for the iliac artery where the patients respond very well to angioplasty and anything below the groin was more or less considered off-limits for angioplasty. |
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| However, balloon angioplasty has an undesired effect on an estimated onethird of those who receive the therapy. |
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| The AVAIL multicenter clinical study enrolled coronary artery disease patients who had a high risk of restenosis following balloon angioplasty. |
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| Patent Office has allowed its Patent Application on a new laser angioplasty device. |
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| These amazing doctors unblocked all my stenosed veins and stretched them open with the angioplasty balloon and they all responded very well and stayed open! |
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| Dake reported that the Zilver Drug eluting stent showed an equal MAE rate to conventional angioplasty for treating SFA lesions. |
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| The experience of Zamboni and Simka is that virtually all CCSVI sufferers with MS who undergo corrective angioplasty experienced some improvement in their symptoms. |
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| Geometric remodeling is not the principal pathogenetic process in restenosis after balloon angioplasty. |
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| Passages opened in this way frequently reclose over time, but the chances of this occurring can be reduced significantly by the insertion of expandable wire-mesh stents as part of the angioplasty procedure. |
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| Robots performing delicate surgery, biosensors used to detect bioterrorism agents in food and water, as well as new optical imaging techniques that could greatly improve procedures such as angioplasty are a few examples. |
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| I was going downhill fast and didn't have too many other options, so with much discussion with my husband we decided we wanted to take the leap of faith and try this angioplasty procedure by going to Sofia, Bulgaria. |
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| Originally thought to be a pinched nerve in his shoulder, the pain was later diagnosed as an acutely blocked coronary artery, requiring an emergency angioplasty in Hamburg. |
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| In some cases the buildup of plaque can be treated with angioplasty, a method of opening blocked arteries and restoring the flow of blood to the heart. |
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| Stents, which help hold blood vessels open after angioplasty, were just becoming available after patients in the BARI trial had received their initial treatments. |
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| Subsequently, the patient had percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty to the mid RCA and ostial LC arteries through the right radial approach. |
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| Using a small balloon inflated inside the artery at the site of the blockage, physicians can open many blockages in a procedure called an angioplasty. |
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| On the Friday I was mee-mawed to hospital with chest pains and, one hour and one angioplasty later, I had two stents in my chest to unblock an artery. |
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| Lumsden recommended that patients with intermittent claudication only undergo angioplasty or bypass surgery, provided the disease is unifocal and life expectancy is favorable. |
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| Beta radiation has shown desirable effects in the treatment of restenosis, the regrowth of scar tissue associated with balloon angioplasty failure. |
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