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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty -- "balloon angioplasty" -- see this page
Ãâó: www.chfpatients.com/glossary_2.htm
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a technique to treat heart disease and chest pain by using angioplasty in the coronary arteries to permit more blood flow into the heart.
Ãâó: www.health.uab.edu/show.asp
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angioplasty.
Ãâó: uuhsc.utah.edu/healthinfo/adult/cardiac/glossary.h...
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An invasive procedure to enlarge the lumen of a narrowed coronary artery by balloon compression. The angioplasty catheter is inserted into a coronary artery, and the balloon is inflated at the site of an obstructing atheroma.
Ãâó: www.iacpr.net/services/glossary_terms.php
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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, dilation of an occluded coronary artery (or arteries) by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply.
Ãâó: www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk2/glossary.htm
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