ANGIOPLASTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angioplasty mean? 

• ANGIOPLASTY (noun)
  The noun ANGIOPLASTY has 1 sense:

1. an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery

  Familiarity information: ANGIOPLASTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOPLASTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("angioplasty" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

 Context examples 

Examples of angioplasty are balloon angioplasty and laser angioplasty.

(Angioplasty, NCI Dictionary)

Catheters with a balloon on the tip are used in the procedure called percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

(Cardiac Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)

Aorto-iliac occlusive disease reconstruction, peripheral vascular bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent; or percutaneous intervention to the extremities; 4.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Another option for people who can't have surgery is carotid angioplasty.

(Carotid Artery Disease, NIH)

Your doctor may also recommend procedures such as angioplasty to open the arteries, or surgery on the coronary or carotid arteries.

(Atherosclerosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Many people go home the day after angioplasty, and are able to return to work within a week of coming home.

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

You may try treatments such as lifestyle changes, medicines, and angioplasty, a procedure to open the arteries.

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

This drug is primarily used during coronary angioplasty procedures, in combination with aspirin, in patients with unstable angina.

(Bivalirudin, NCI Thesaurus)

The placement of an angioplasty guide wire, balloon, or other device (e.g. stent, atherectomy, brachytherapy, or thrombectomy catheter) into a native coronary artery or coronary artery bypass graft for the purpose of mechanical coronary revascularization.

(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

An establishment staffed, equipped, and licensed for performing invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular procedures (e.g. diagnostic heart catheterization, selective coronary angiography and graft angiography, angioplasty, stent placement, endomyocaridal biopsy, valvuloplasty, etc.) used to diagnose and treat various cardiac and circulatory diseases.

(Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)