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 ...

This can be done with angioplasty (possibly including stent placement) or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called open-heart surgery. An angioplasty involves threading a wire to ...

If there are multiple blockages or chronic total occlusion (in which a vessel is completely blocked for more than three months), bypass surgery is usually preferred over angioplasty. Related ...

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 ...