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angioplasty using a balloon catheter that is inflated inside an artery, stretching the intima and leaving a ragged interior surface after deflation, which triggers a healing response and breaking up of plaque. See also percutaneous transluminal a. Click here to view image■Balloon angioplasty, the expanded balloon pressing against a stenotic site in an artery.
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