Coronary Angioplasty - procedure to relieve a blocked artery

OR-Live.com webcast December 18, 2007 at 6:30 PM CST From St. Mary's Medical Center Duluth, MN

St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Heart Center in Duluth, MN, plans to broadcast a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called a coronary angioplasty, live on the Internet. The webcast is slated for Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. The public will be able to watch doctors use a minimally invasive procedure to relieve a blocked artery in the heart.
A member of the interventional cardiology team at the Heart Center will perform the live procedure. At the same time, two of their colleagues, interventional cardiologists Michael Lucca, MD, and Kathleen Braddy, MD, FACC, will help to explain the surgery and answer questions as they are e-mailed by viewers.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• angioplasty
• coronary
• percutaneous
• artery
• arteries
• heart
• cardiology
• cardiologists
• catheterization
• cath-lab

[mrralphmorgan]

The balloon is inflated and deflated very quickly so as not to stop the critical blood flow.

[sclogse1]

NIce that the artery tolerates this stretch. Of course, one wonders why it doesn't stretch with all that blood pressure without the stent...now, if there is some heart damage, one wonders just what proteins, enzymes, etc. would be good to be eating to help rebuild the heart, or course with exercise, etc. One also wonders what keeps the stent in position...once again, with all that blood pressure....Plus one more thing...what about the time that the balloon cuts off the flow?

[nissansentraglx]

@1shinan i hope your operation was successful.

[phuckizlam]

I keep having dreams that I'm having this done.

[1shinan]

great video. Waiting for my operation this week.

[777doom]

YAYYYYYYY