The bypass graft occluded in three other patients during the follow-up period. All three kept patent their proximal angioplasty: the superficial femoral artery in two cases and the supragenicular ...

Medically reviewed by Jenny A. Dhingra, MD Balloon angioplasty, also known as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), is ...

Republican J.R. Riggins, 65, of Casper is scheduled to have open-heart bypass surgery on Monday at Banner Wyoming Medical ...

They include: coronary artery bypass; balloon angioplasty (where a small balloon-like device is threaded through an artery to open the blockage); valve repair and replacement; heart ...

Inflow and outflow angioplasty allow shorter bypass grafts, which have at least equivalent patency rates to longer ones. Furthermore, they require a shorter single-vein graft segment, which is ...