His device breaks up clots before the insertion of a stent, or a balloon angioplasty.
Researchers studied 902 heart attack patients who were given angiograms before the blocked artery was opened with balloon angioplasty or stenting.
The original catheter-based treatment balloon angioplasty is still used hundreds of thousands of times each year in the U.S. alone.
In around one-third of balloon angioplasty patients the arteries narrow down again.
Nine years later doctors had to unclog one of his heart arteries with a balloon angioplasty, the first of three such procedures.
Procedures that are often used to treat a heart attack, such as balloon angioplasty and stent placement, or even surgery, are not helpful in treating broken heart syndrome.
The next milestone occurred in the 1970s with balloon angioplasty.
Another study of 2, 200 individuals found that routinely checking patients' arteries with angiograms, then fixing blockages when necessary with bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty, could reduce those events by 18 percent.
Both stents are used to hold open arteries after they have been unclogged using a balloon, a procedure known as angioplasty.
Each year, doctors in America perform about a million angioplasty procedures, using a balloon-tipped catheter to open clogged arteries and relieve chest pain.
When angioplasty is done, a balloon is placed in the area of the narrowed coronary artery, and it is inflated to widen the narrowed opening.
The devices are used in a procedure called angioplasty, in which a balloon is snaked in through the leg and used to clear clogs in the arteries that feed the heart.
Prasugrel was only tested in patients undergoing angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is snaked into a clogged artery.
One big hope for Lilly and Sankyo is that prasugrel has been tested entirely in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is used to open a clogged artery.
Stents are used in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into a heart artery via a catheter and used to reopen it, alleviating chest pain, allowing patients to walk and treating heart attacks.
Clinton underwent a procedure called angioplasty, the hospital said, in which a balloon catheter is threaded through an artery to the blocked vessel in the heart.
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Some patients were treated with angioplasty, a procedure in which an artery is opened with a balloon and then propped with a stent--a wire mesh tube.
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