What is arteriosclerosis? Before knowing atherosclerosis, we will first discuss the arteries and arteriosclerosis. Arteries are the blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from our heart to the rest of…
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Heart diseases in children More than 200,000 children per year in India are born with heart diseases. Nearly twenty percent of these children have life-threatening defects, requiring medical intervention in…
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Angioplasty often called Balloon Angioplasty and Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA), is a minimally invasive procedure used to expand constricted or obstructed vessels that are created as a result of plaque…
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A stent is a small tube that your Cardiologist can place into an obstructed passageway to keep it open. The stent reinstates the flow of blood, depending on where it’s…
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Coronary artery disease refers to obstructed blood flow to the cardiac muscles due to atherosclerosis, which is the narrowing or blockage of arteries due to fat and other substances forming…