Medically reviewed by David Hampton, MD Key Takeaways Balloon angioplasty is used to widen blocked or narrow blood vessels.It ...

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) ...

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 ...

In the 1960s patients with a blocked artery would have required major open surgery and a hospital stay of a week or more. Half a century on, patients are treated in a matter of hours and return home ...

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 ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. ST. CATHARINES, Ont. ─ It was a relatively common procedure done with a unique twist. Gordon Reid’s ...

A live workshop on complex coronary angioplasty with coronary imaging was conducted at Apollo Hospitals here on Wednesday. Dr. Raj Dave, senior consultant cardiologist and chairman of Holy Spirit ...

Unless you quit smoking, you can never increase your chances of getting the best outcomes from angioplasty - meaning more relief from chest pain. If you have gone through angioplasty, kicking the butt ...

India Live 2012 has showcased two cases of complex interventional angioplasty live, which was organized by Cardiovascular Educational Research Trust at New Delhi, recently. This cases was telecasted ...

The Live Summit of Indo-Japanese CTO Club (IJCTO) concluded here on Sunday with Japanese experts and their Indian counterparts holding a chain of minimal invasive coronary angioplasty in Chronic Total ...

Nagpur: These days, heart attacks at a young age have become unusually common with many patients needing angioplasty. Traditionally, angioplasty procedures involve placing a stent — a small mesh tube ...