During a heart attack, specialty centers can rush patients to catheterization where a cardiologist can open heart vessels with a balloon.
Nine years later doctors had to unclog one of his heart arteries with a balloon angioplasty, the first of three such procedures.
It is compressed, along with a balloon, into an 8 millimeter catheter that is threaded up from an incision in the groin into the heart.
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.
The modern device era exploded in 1977 with the invention of angioplasty, when German cardiologist Andreas Gruentzig made a tiny slice near the hip of a patient and inserted a catheter tipped with a balloon into an artery.
Earlier this week, a sch-amazing video of a dude in an orange jacket hacking video screens in Times Square with a balloon, a smartphone, and a tiny transmitter was being circulated on Twitter and posted on blogs with virtual jaws dropped at the incredibility of the stunt.
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Romp the throttle at mid-rpm in third gear and you'll get a huge, hydraulic shove in the back, like God has hit you with a water balloon.
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Perhaps her story begins in a cold, seaside town, with a wardrobe that includes a cashmere cable-knit turtleneck with a flared leather miniskirt or balloon-leg pants tucked into her boots.
The wide receiver was in the balloon with a female friend when the accident occurred, according to Lyons.
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His grandfather, Auguste, broke high altitude records in the '30s by designing a balloon with a pressurized cockpit, and later became the inspiration for Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics.
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If I take 7 lbs. of air pressure out of a balloon and replace it with 3 lbs. of air pressure, is the balloon inflated or deflated from its previous state?
The initial "push" upward by the cold front on that balloon filled with surface air is like a child letting a helium-filled balloon go -- it just keeps rising.
Mr Rennie was on holiday with his wife Yvonne when a balloon flight promising spectacular views over the Valley of the Kings - ended in disaster.
In three separate procedures, Dr. Shishehbor used a balloon embedded with a wire that cuts through calcified plaque and implanted two stents to prop open a small artery in Mr. Swartz's foot.
Pinsent, who was immediately behind the two eight-man university crews on a launch with umpire John Garrett, initially thought he had spotted a balloon.
The moon, a giant balloon filled with bright film lights, will ascend into the sky above College Green each evening from Thursday until Sunday.
The group designed and launched a balloon kitted out with a Nikon Coolpix and custom built electronics, intending to get some shots at 30, 000 feet.
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The experience combines an old-fashioned promenade with the floating feeling of a hot air balloon.
After construction, the elder Mr. Spiliadis, 74, applied for the loan to roll into a 20-year mortgage with balloon payments every three years.
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The balloon itself catches fire with a flash, and in an instant, it bursts and falls as a fireball to the ground, trailing smoke.
The balloon has been filled with a special gel at the rate of six teaspoons full each week - with the healthy skin and hair stretching around it.
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Aoki used to fly around in a helium balloon shaped like a Benihana chef, and raced Benihana speedboats with bright red logos.
Kai-Lan makes the shape of a heart with her hands, sending a bright-red heart into the air like a balloon.
Tomas Rosicky should have added a third, only to balloon the ball over the bar, while Fabregas went close with a shot after more good work by Henry.
He said he got angry with Falcon for climbing into a compartment in the tethered balloon on Thursday before the balloon was accidentally released.
Unlike a conventional hot air balloon where the height is controlled by a burner, the gas balloons are filled with hydrogen and controlled by releasing gas to go down and throwing out ballast to go up.
There were basketball drills and contests, along with other activities such as a magician, face painters and balloon makers in a carnival-type setting.
Not surprisingly, when Ecuador announced that it was floating the sucre, the currency spiraled down like a deflated balloon -- just as had happened with the Asian currencies.
Unstable means that if an imaginary balloon filled with air from near the ground were to be lifted upward, colliding with some weather feature such as a cold front, the "balloon" would become warmer than the surrounding air at that level.
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