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angioplasty
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angioplasty

Surgical repair of damaged or diseased blood vessels. A thin wire with a balloon at its tip is inserted into the blocked artery. The balloon is inflated to push the artery walls apart.

Within six months of surgery, 40% of patients will need the operation repeated because of a reaction to the stretching.

In the USA 1.285 million people underwent angioplasty in 2004.



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