They performed angioplasty to clear out the blockage and reopened the vessel.

Such facilities are generally required by state regulation or community standards before a hospital can perform angioplasty.

The story of this patient is one we as doctors encounter almost every day: a heart attack victim taken by ambulance to a hospital that isn't equipped to perform angioplasty.

There are several types of interventional procedures which your doctor may use when performing angioplasty.

The more a hospital performed angioplasty, the survey showed, the more its results improved.

Doctors performed angioplasty to ease a blockage in an artery, and said they would evaluate the former Mayor's condition to see whether his heart had sustained structural damage.

There, Dr. Bhalla performed angioplasty and implanted a stent.

Many of those doctors are affiliated with one or more of the 18 New Jersey hospitals already licensed to perform elective angioplasty.

And while personnel at hospitals without heart surgery facilities can receive the training necessary to perform angioplasty, there is no national certification standard.

The movies are being used by cardiologists to help them perform angioplasty, an alternative to coronary bypass surgery.