Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The surgical reconstruction of a blood vessel.
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- noun surgery The mechanical widening of a narrowed or totally obstructed
blood vessel generally caused byatheroma .
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- noun an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you are getting paid more for the angioplasty, then that subconsciously even might make you think the angioplasty is the better route to take.
Dr. Jon LaPook: How To Save Billions in Health Costs Starting Now Dr. Jon LaPook 2010
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Whether the preference for angioplasty is good for the patients of Elyria is open to medical debate.
Preference-for-Ignorance Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The fact that some physicians do advocate angioplasty is due to recent changes: medical therapy has improved to the point where it almost always does as well or better than angioplasty.
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Mr. SPRADLIN: There's one that we put in the category we call angioplasty, right?
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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.
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The research suggests angioplasty is used too often, and in many cases, the modest benefits don't justify the procedure's cost, which ranges from $10,000 to $12,000.
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That shift is evident not only in angioplasty procedures but also in other measures of how doctors practice medicine, such as which type of stent they chose.
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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.
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Advances in angioplasty -- improvements in catheter design, the advent of stents, metal meshes to prop open arteries, and better monitoring -- have made it safer.
Plainfield's Muhlenberg dodges angioplasty bullet -- for now Dan 2007
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Advances in angioplasty -- improvements in catheter design, the advent of stents, metal meshes to prop open arteries, and better monitoring -- have made it safer.
Archive 2007-07-01 Dan 2007
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