Peripheral artery angioplasty is a procedure ... narrowed area and inflates it. The balloon presses the plaque against the walls of the artery. This makes more room for blood to flow. The doctor may ...

Once inflated, an expandable mesh tube (called a stent) can be inserted to keep the vessel open. Balloon angioplasty is typically a scheduled procedure performed under local anesthesia.

Several balloon-expandable stents have been used in the iliac artery ... stent placement is superior to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) alone in maintaining patency of treated vessels ...

Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

Y. Vijayachandra Reddy, senior consultant interventional cardiologist at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, discusses personalized ...

Expert experience with the highly dedicated bridging stent graft, including a case example. Fenestrated endovascular aneurysm ...

KATHMANDU, May 9: Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairperson of CPN (Unified Socialist), underwent an angioplasty ...