1. And his female friends passed small balloons filled with heroin from their mouths to his when they kissed in the visiting room. 2. And from the size of a pencil it grew to the size of a small balloon. 3. Drugs packed in small balloons are passed mouth-to-mouth when inmates kiss female visitors and inmates swallow them and pass them later. 4. In that procedure, a small balloon is inserted into the artery and inflated to remove the clot. 5. The only government-approved use is for patients who already have been given a stent along with angioplasty, in which inflating a small balloon opens the blockage. 6. Three or four tiny blades are embedded in the small balloon that forces the blockage open by inflating. 7. Angioplasty involves inserting a small balloon that is inflated to reopen the blood vessel. 8. Angioplasty usually involves inserting a small balloon to reopen a blocked blood vessel. 9. Balloon angioplasty involves inserting a thin tube into the body through an artery and inflating a small balloon at the end to clear blockages. 10. Doctors will perform an angioplasty Friday, inflating a small balloon in the narrowed artery to widen the passage, the government said. |