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angioplasty
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Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Angioplasty
- Medical intervention.Image
- Angioplasty-scheme.svg
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Balloon angioplasty
- Medical intervention.Specialty
- Interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, vascular surgery
- Medical intervention.ICD9
- ,
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D017130
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
87,539 papers- Subintimal angioplasty.The Journal of cardiovascular surgery · 2007
- Laser balloon angioplasty.Critical reviews in biomedical engineering · 1991
- Angioplasty of the internal thoracic artery bypass-graft an alternative to reoperation.International journal of cardiology · 2004
- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of renal artery stenosis in children.Pediatric radiology · 1998
- Complications following peripheral angioplasty.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- endovascular surgery
- Image
- Angioplasty-scheme.svg
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- uses
- balloon catheter
- ICD-9-CM
- 39.50
- Commons category
- Angioplasty
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Uses and indications
- Coronary angioplasty
- Peripheral angioplasty
- Chronic limb-threatening ischemia
- Renal artery angioplasty
- Carotid angioplasty
- Venous angioplasty
- Contraindications
- Technique
- Risks and complications
- Adjunctive therapy
- Atherectomy techniques
- Rotational Atherectomy
- Orbital Atherectomy
- Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty
- Recovery
- History
- References
- External links
Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.
A deflated balloon attached to a catheter (a balloon catheter) is passed over a guide-wire into the narrowed vessel and then inflated to a fixed size. The balloon forces expansion of the blood vessel and the surrounding muscular wall, allowing an improved blood flow. A stent may be inserted at the time of ballooning to ensure the vessel remains open, and the balloon is then deflated and withdrawn. Angioplasty has come to include all manner of vascular interventions that are typically performed percutaneously.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “angioplasty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.