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 ...

Angioplasty is a treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which is a blood clot that forms in one of the deep veins typically in your legs. DVT can partly or totally block the blood flow back to your ...

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

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 ...

Coronary angioplasty is a quicker procedure compared to coronary bypass surgery with a faster recovery. However, it is difficult to perform if multiple vessels are affected. Coronary angioplasty can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...