How to Use angioplasty in a Sentence

angioplasty

noun
  • Much worse was the fate of the mother of a deacon at his church, who lost her home in the storm and then was rushed to a hospital for angioplasty and a stent.
    Teresa M. Walker, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Someone there had neatly inked it with the date of my angioplasty.
    Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • Blockages were treated right away, with angioplasty in three-fourths of cases and a bypass in the rest.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • In angioplasty, a blockage in one of the heart arteries is opened by a balloon.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2021
  • 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, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Such risks range from a heart attack and coronary artery surgery to angina and angioplasty.
    Fox News, 11 Sep. 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, 12 Apr. 2019
  • In February, Tobey did an angioplasty to restore blood flow in her right leg, and had Hall look at her feet.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The angioplasty went off without complications, but there was one big anomaly: The surgeon was not in the room, or even the building.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • That's either a bypass — open-heart surgery to detour around blockages — or angioplasty, in which doctors push a tube through an artery to the clog, inflate a tiny balloon and place a stent, or mesh scaffold, to prop the artery open.
    Marilynn Marchione, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • That’s either a bypass — open-heart surgery to detour around blockages — or angioplasty, in which doctors push a tube through an artery to the clog, inflate a tiny balloon and place a stent, or mesh scaffold, to prop the artery open.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Felstead stayed in the hospital for three days and underwent an angioplasty.
    Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Within about a year and a half of her arrest, Ezell had five angioplasties and underwent open heart surgery, according to a transcript of her sentencing hearing.
    jsonline.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • One team focused on angioplasty patients who were suffering from cardiogenic shock, a condition in which the heart suddenly can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
    Dennis Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Twelve years ago, a big study found that angioplasty was no better than medicines for preventing heart attacks and deaths in non-emergency heart patients, but many doctors balked at the results and quarreled with the methods.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • His spokeswoman said the angioplasty operation went well and...
    Giada Zampano, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Indiana University Health charges almost six times the Medicare rate for angioplasty with a stent.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Some procedures like angioplasty, about one in four times, there’s a physical person in the room from a medical device company.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes patients undergoing angioplasty have a weak heart and need mechanical support to maintain blood flow to the rest of their bodies.
    Dennis Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Compared to men with no hair loss, men whose crowns were completely bald had a 36 percent greater risk of having a coronary event, such as a heart attack, angina, or heart surgery including angioplasty or bypass surgery.
    Reuters, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2000
  • In some people, heart disease is so serious that medication, even combined with angioplasty, may not be enough.
    Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
  • When someone has a heart attack, the cardiologist gets paid to perform angioplasty.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, people covered by their companies seldom shop for bargains, or are even aware of what their employer is paying for checkups or angioplasties.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
  • From the beginning, doctors did angioplasty to treat the condition, propping open veins with devices designed for arteries.
    jsonline.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • In 2014, about one third of angioplasties were elective, for non-emergency situations.
    Washington Post, 31 July 2017
  • Medicaid patients were also more than twice as likely to have a major, subsequent heart attack after angioplasty as were patients who didn’t have any health insurance at all.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 17 July 2017
  • Niam, 4, has already had four angioplasties, a second open heart surgery and various other procedures.
    Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 17 May 2018
  • Biologist Dunn burrows deep into the valves and ventricles, looking at what makes our hearts tick and what can keep them ticking longer, including pacemakers, angioplasty and transplants.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
  • Available data and methods used to project the number of deaths that will occur within the applicants’ proposed service area if OHS denies the application for emergency angioplasty.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 1 July 2019
  • After undergoing an emergency angioplasty, the star retired from touring and vanished into private life in New York City.
    Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2018

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