angioplasty
noun
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plural angioplasties
Definition of angioplasty
: surgical repair or recanalization of a blood vessel
especially
: balloon angioplasty
Examples of angioplasty in a Sentence
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As a cardiac interventional center, emergency medical services providers will continue to transport heart attack patients to the hospital who may require emergency percutaneous coronary intervention, also known as emergency angioplasty. — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "Business briefs: Hospital receives awards, re-accreditation; Carroll Bancorp second quarter results," 19 Aug. 2019 Sabathia is set to make his first start since having an angioplasty and right knee surgery during the offseason. — Jake Seiner, The Seattle Times, "Yanks’ Betances out 6-7 more weeks, Sanchez to 10-day IL," 12 Apr. 2019 Also, the agency found that the need for emergency angioplasty declined by 6 percent in the area from 2015-18 and there are two hospitals (Hartford Hospital and St. Francis) within 10 miles of Manchester Memorial with emergency cardiac programs. — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, "East of the Connecticut River leaders blast state’s denial of expanded cardiac care at Manchester Memorial Hospital," 17 June 2019 Also during the late ‘90s, Carvey experienced health complications that caused him to undergo four angioplasties in less than a year, followed by double bypass surgery. — PEOPLE.com, "Why Dana Carvey Says He Left Hollywood in the Late ’90s — And What He’s Doing Now," 7 June 2019 Knee replacements, cataract surgeries, cesarean deliveries, coronary-bypass grafts, angioplasty. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, "Can Doctors Choose Between Saving Lives and Saving a Fortune?," 3 Apr. 2018 Heart attacks are instead treated with angioplasty. — Karen Weintraub, STAT, "At 88, this doctor won’t give up on a long-ignored treatment for strokes and heart attacks," 6 Apr. 2018 Niam, 4, has already had four angioplasties, a second open heart surgery and various other procedures. — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, "Naperville native raising awareness for genetic disorder 22q, which affects his child and thousands of others," 17 May 2018 In angioplasty, a doctor inflates a thin balloon in an artery to widen it, leaving a stent in place to prop the blood vessel open. — Consumer Reports, Washington Post, "Some reasons not to rush into open-heart surgery," 26 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'angioplasty.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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angioplasty
noun
an·gio·plas·ty
| \ ˈan-jē-ə-ˌplas-tē
\
\
plural angioplasties
Medical Definition of angioplasty
: surgical repair or recanalization of a blood vessel
especially
: balloon angioplasty