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What is an angioplasty?
Here Professor N. Ruparelia Consultant Cardiologist discusses what and angioplasty is.
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What is an angioplasty? So an angioplasty is a medical term for intervening on a blood vessel that is narrow to improve the narrowing and the narrowing can be intervened upon with just a balloon where we stretch the artery open with a balloon or with a balloon and then stent implantation which is a metal mesh tube that then remains in that blood vessel forever maintaining patency of that artery and so angioplasty is a term that encompasses both balloon dilatation and stent implantation for the treatment of narrowed blood vessels.
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