Farlow's glassblowing team would then create a heart connected to a vascular system connected to a custom opening in the femoral artery of the leg.

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In PCI, a catheter is passed usually from the femoral artery in the groin up to the heart and into the small coronary arteries that pass through the heart muscle.

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