What Does Angioplasty Mean?
Article updated and reviewed by Mark I. Furman, MD, FACC, FAHA, Director of Interventional Cardiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center & Associate Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School on December 21, 2005.
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