1. Place the tiny balloons and their baskets on the drum around the sky. 2. Cheryl carries a tiny silver balloon on a stick. 3. Historically, doctors have treated this problem, called stenosis, with balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny balloon is inflated to push apart vessel walls. 4. Hundreds of thousands of patients each year have procedures to open clogged arteries by scraping them clean with a sharp blade or squashing plaque with tiny balloons. 5. In angioplasty, doctors ream out the debris blocking a coronary artery by threading a long catheter into the heart and inflating a tiny balloon. 6. In angioplasty, doctors snake a catheter to the heart through a vein in the leg, then inflate a tiny balloon on the end to clear blockage. 7. In the procedure, a tiny balloon catheter is inserted into the tumor cavity after a lumpectomy, a breast-conserving surgery in which the tumor is removed. 8. Interventional cardiology had been developing for less than a decade, using tiny balloons to squash blockages against artery walls. 9. Soon your fingers swell like sausages and your knuckles look like tiny balloons. |