Angioplasty, the Glossary

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1. 78 relations: Acute radiation syndrome, Andreas Gruentzig, Angina, Aspirin, Atherectomy, Atheroma, Atherosclerosis, Balloon catheter, Barack Obama, Blood pressure, Blood vessel, Carotid artery stenosis, Carotid endarterectomy, Carotid stenting, Catheter, Charles Theodore Dotter, Cholesterol, Claudication, Clopidogrel, Contrast-induced nephropathy, Coronary arteries, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Coronary artery disease, Decompression (surgery), Drug-eluting stent, Embolization, Excimer laser, Femoral artery, Femoral vein, Fever, Fluoroscopy, Heart, Hematoma, Hemodialysis, Hypertension, IBM, Ingemar Lundquist, Internal bleeding, Interventional radiology, James J. Wynne, Kidney, Kidney failure, Medical procedure, Minimally invasive procedure, Myocardial infarction, National Health Service, National Inventors Hall of Fame, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Neointimal hyperplasia, Nobel Prize, ... Expand index (28 more) »

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Acute radiation syndrome

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time.

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Andreas Gruentzig

Andreas Roland Grüntzig (25 June 1939 – 27 October 1985) was a German radiologist and cardiologist, with foundational interest, training and research in epidemiology and angiology.

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Angina

Angina, also known as angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium).

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Aspirin

Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, and/or inflammation, and as an antithrombotic.

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Atherectomy

Atherectomy is a minimally invasive technique for removing atherosclerosis from blood vessels within the body. Angioplasty and Atherectomy are interventional radiology.

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Atheroma

An atheroma, or atheromatous plaque, is an abnormal accumulation of material in the inner layer of an arterial wall.

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Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis, characterized by development of abnormalities called lesions in walls of arteries.

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Balloon catheter

A balloon catheter is a type of "soft" catheter with an inflatable "balloon" at its tip which is used during a catheterization procedure to enlarge a narrow opening or passage within the body.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Blood pressure

Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels.

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Blood vessel

Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.

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Carotid artery stenosis

Carotid artery stenosis is a narrowing or constriction of any part of the carotid arteries, usually caused by atherosclerosis.

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Carotid endarterectomy

Carotid endarterectomy is a surgical procedure used to reduce the risk of stroke from carotid artery stenosis (narrowing the internal carotid artery).

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Carotid stenting

Carotid artery stenting is an endovascular procedure where a stent is deployed within the lumen of the carotid artery to treat narrowing of the carotid artery and decrease the risk of stroke.

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Catheter

In medicine, a catheter is a thin tube made from medical grade materials serving a broad range of functions.

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Charles Theodore Dotter

Charles Theodore Dotter (14 June 1920 – 15 February 1985) was a pioneering American radiologist who is credited with developing interventional radiology.

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.

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Claudication

Claudication is a medical term usually referring to impairment in walking, or pain, discomfort, numbness, or tiredness in the legs that occurs during walking or standing and is relieved by rest.

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Clopidogrel

Clopidogrel, sold under the brand name Plavix among others, is an antiplatelet medication used to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke in those at high risk.

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Contrast-induced nephropathy

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is a purported form of kidney damage in which there has been recent exposure to medical imaging contrast material without another clear cause for the acute kidney injury.

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Coronary arteries

The coronary arteries are the arterial blood vessels of coronary circulation, which transport oxygenated blood to the heart muscle.

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Coronary artery bypass surgery

Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart.

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Coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart.

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Decompression (surgery)

In medicine, decompression refers to the removal or repositioning of any structure compressing any other structure.

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Drug-eluting stent

A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a tube made of a mesh-like material used to treat narrowed arteries in medical procedures both mechanically (by providing a supporting scaffold inside the artery) and pharmacologically (by slowly releasing a pharmaceutical compound).

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Embolization

Embolization refers to the passage and lodging of an embolus within the bloodstream. Angioplasty and Embolization are interventional radiology.

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Excimer laser

An excimer laser, sometimes more correctly called an exciplex laser, is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic devices, semiconductor based integrated circuits or "chips", eye surgery, and micromachining.

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Femoral artery

The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the thigh and leg.

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Femoral vein

In the human body, the femoral vein is the vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the femoral sheath.

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Fever

Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.

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Fluoroscopy

Fluoroscopy, informally referred to as "fluoro", is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object.

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Heart

The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.

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Hematoma

A hematoma, also spelled haematoma, or blood suffusion is a localized bleeding outside of blood vessels, due to either disease or trauma including injury or surgery and may involve blood continuing to seep from broken capillaries.

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Hemodialysis

Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally.

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Hypertension

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Ingemar Lundquist

Ingemar Henry Lundquist (October 19, 1921 – February 25, 2007) was a Swedish inventor and mechanical engineer.

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Internal bleeding

Internal bleeding (also called internal haemorrhage) is a loss of blood from a blood vessel that collects inside the body, and is not usually visible from the outside.

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Interventional radiology

Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound.

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James J. Wynne

James J. Wynne (born March 19, 1943, in Brooklyn) is an American physicist at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

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Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.

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Kidney failure

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as either acute kidney failure, which develops rapidly and may resolve; and chronic kidney failure, which develops slowly and can often be irreversible.

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Medical procedure

A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare.

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Minimally invasive procedure

Minimally invasive procedures (also known as minimally invasive surgeries) encompass surgical techniques that limit the size of incisions needed, thereby reducing wound healing time, associated pain, and risk of infection.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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National Inventors Hall of Fame

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology.

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National Medal of Technology and Innovation

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology.

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Neointimal hyperplasia

Neointimal hyperplasia refers to proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells primarily in the tunica intima, resulting in the thickening of arterial walls and decreased arterial lumen space.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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P2Y12

P2Y12 is a chemoreceptor for adenosine diphosphate (ADP) that belongs to the Gi class of a group of G protein-coupled (GPCR) purinergic receptors.

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Percutaneous

In surgery, a percutaneous procedure is any medical procedure or method where access to inner organs or other tissue is done via needle-puncture of the skin, rather than by using an "open" approach where inner organs or tissue are exposed (typically with the use of a scalpel).

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Percutaneous coronary intervention

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease.

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Peripheral artery disease

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a vascular disorder that causes abnormal narrowing of arteries other than those that supply the heart or brain.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Proton-pump inhibitor

Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a class of medications that cause a profound and prolonged reduction of stomach acid production.

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Pseudoaneurysm

A pseudoaneurysm, also known as a false aneurysm, is a locally contained hematoma outside an artery or the heart due to damage to the vessel wall.

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Radial artery

In human anatomy, the radial artery is the main artery of the lateral aspect of the forearm.

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Radiocontrast agent

Radiocontrast agents are substances used to enhance the visibility of internal structures in X-ray-based imaging techniques such as computed tomography (contrast CT), projectional radiography, and fluoroscopy.

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Radiodensity

Radiodensity (or radiopacity) is opacity to the radio wave and X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum: that is, the relative inability of those kinds of electromagnetic radiation to pass through a particular material.

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Rangaswamy Srinivasan

Rangaswamy Srinivasan (born February 28, 1929, in Madras, India) is a physical chemist and inventor with a 30-year career at IBM Research.

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Renal artery

The renal arteries are paired arteries that supply the kidneys with blood.

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Renal artery stenosis

Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the narrowing of one or both of the renal arteries, most often caused by atherosclerosis or fibromuscular dysplasia.

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Restenosis

Restenosis is the recurrence of stenosis, a narrowing of a blood vessel, leading to restricted blood flow.

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Samuel E. Blum

Samuel E. Blum (August 28, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American chemist and physicist.

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Seldinger technique

The Seldinger technique, also known as Seldinger wire technique, is a medical procedure to obtain safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs. Angioplasty and Seldinger technique are interventional radiology.

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Shortness of breath

Shortness of breath (SOB), known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough.

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Spasm

A spasm is a sudden involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, such as the bladder.

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Stenosis

Stenosis is the abnormal narrowing of a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure such as foramina and canals.

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Stent

In medicine, a stent is a tube usually constructed of a metallic alloy or a polymer. Angioplasty and stent are interventional radiology.

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Subclavian vein

The subclavian vein is a paired large vein, one on either side of the body, that is responsible for draining blood from the upper extremities, allowing this blood to return to the heart.

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Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.

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Thomas J. Watson Research Center

The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research.

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Thoracic outlet syndrome

Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a condition in which there is compression of the nerves, arteries, or veins in the superior thoracic aperture, the passageway from the lower neck to the armpit, also known as the thoracic outlet.

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Unstable angina

Unstable angina is a type of angina pectoris that is irregular or more easily provoked.

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Vascular bypass

A vascular bypass is a surgical procedure performed to redirect blood flow from one area to another by reconnecting blood vessels.

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Vascular closure device

Vascular closure devices (VCDs) are medical devices used to achieve hemostasis of the small hole in the artery after a cardiovascular procedure of endovascular surgery requiring a catheterization. Angioplasty and Vascular closure device are interventional radiology.

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Vascular surgery

Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. Angioplasty and vascular surgery are vascular procedures.

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See also

Vascular procedures

• Ambulatory phlebectomy
• Angiography
• Angioplasty
• Balloon pulmonary angioplasty
• Buerger's test
• CHIVA method
• Cold pressor test
• Cutting balloon
• Embolectomy
• Endoscopic optical coherence tomography imaging
• Inferior vena cava filter
• Intravascular imaging
• Intravascular ultrasound
• Irreversible electroporation
• Magnetic resonance angiography
• Microangiography
• Percutaneous intentional extraluminal revascularization
• Photoplethysmogram
• Radial artery puncture
• Radiofrequency ablation
• Renal sympathetic denervation
• Therapeutic angiogenesis
• Thrombectomy
• Thrombolysis
• Transradial catheterization
• Vascular access
• Vascular access for chemotherapy
• Vascular surgery

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angioplasty

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