Your provider will tell you which medicines to take or not take on the day of your surgery. You may need blood tests and a stress test before your procedure. Talk to your provider about these or other tests you may need. Contrast liquid will be used during your procedure to help health...
However, instead of releasing a dye, this catheter carries a balloon on its tip. By inflating this balloon at the site of the blockage, the doctor can push the plaque back against thearterywalls. Typically, a small length of expandable metal mesh tubing (called a "stent") is then placed ...
Typically heart bypass surgery involves taking a section of the healthy blood vessel, from the inside of the chest wall or the lower leg, and attaching it above and below the blocked artery. This allows blood to bypass the blocked area and maintain proper flow to the heart muscle. Heart ...
This issue led to the development of drug-eluting stents (DES). DES technology uses a coating of an antiproliferative drug on top of the metallic structure of stents with the benefit of causing less neointimal hyperplasia and stent restenosis as compared with BMS. Late stent thrombosis is also ...
A thin tube is placed in a blood vessel in the leg or arm and threaded into the heart and into the opening of a coronary artery. Dye is put into the tube and goes into the artery. A special X-ray machine images the dye, showing narrowing or blockage of the artery. ...
Augmentation of redistribution of myocardial blood flow during acute ischemia by intraaortic balloon pumping. Ann Thorac Surg 1973; 16:445. CrossRef Sasayama S, Osakada G, Takahashi M, et al. Effects of intraaortic balloon counterpulsation on regional myocardial function during acute coronary ...
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to patients where revascularization is probable [38]; (2) anatomical evaluation with pharmacological stress testing is ideal for detecting silent ischemia in the mobility-impaired CLTI population; and (3) DPCT utilizing absolute values of myocardial blood flow is more precise than SPECT relying on ...