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UK
/ˈæŋɡɪˌɒplɐsti/
]
[ US /ˌænˌdʒiəˈpɫæsti/ ]
[ US /ˌænˌdʒiəˈpɫæsti/ ]
NOUN
- an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery
How To Use angioplasty In A Sentence
- If your doctor thinks that you may need an angioplasty, you will be referred to a hospital specialist.
- The furor prompted the ACC, the angioplasty group and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons to draft criteria to be released this summer to help doctors decide when angioplasty is appropriate, says Ralph Brindis, a scientific adviser for Northern California Kaiser Permanente, who helped lead the effort. Angioplasty's golden era may be fading
- The moocher cleric is due for a government angioplasty — no doubt because he clogged his arteries eating well in the land he would destroy. Blowing up the hand that feeds you « BuzzMachine
- Pathak said if a local hospital is equipped with facilities for primary angioplasty, then the patient should be rushed there and if PCI or pre-hospitalisation thrombolysis is done on the way, chances of recanalisation are as high as 99%. The Times of India
- The tubes and wires used in angioplasty also allow doctors to turn arteries into so-called therapeutic highways to fix other defects, such as the hole in the man's heart. Angioplasty's golden era may be fading
- Mimi is a make-believe character in Chinatown but I can give you directions to my favorite cuchifrito in the Bronx for six papa rellena, and directions to Lincoln Hospital for an angioplasty. La Bloga
- Working with dedication and determination, they have developed new treatments and procedures, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, clot -- dissolving medicines, angioplasty, and cardiac imaging devices, that have saved many lives. Proclamation On American Heart Month
- Zeller T, Frank U, Muller C, Burgelin K, Sinn L, Bestehorn HP, et al. Predictors of improved renal function after percutaneous stent-supported angioplasty of severe atherosclerotic ostial renal artery stenosis. JAMA current issue
- Data for coronary revascularisation are limited to coronary artery bypass surgery; results of percutaneous coronary angioplasty are not yet available.
- A history of coronary artery bypass grafting or angioplasty was associated with macular degeneration.