11.   He told Boltz the problem was ordinarily beyond the scope of balloon angioplasty, which involves threading a catheter through the groin instead of cracking open the chest.

12.   Health letters encompass subjects as complex as balloon angioplasty and as commonplace as toe nail fungus.

13.   His clogged arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty, but the procedure had to be repeated a few months later.

14.   Historically, doctors have treated this problem, called stenosis, with balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny balloon is inflated to push apart vessel walls.

15.   In balloon angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is snaked through an artery and then inflated to rupture the plaque clogging the artery.

16.   In balloon angioplasty, doctors snake a balloon-tipped catheter into a blood vessel, then inflate it and burst buildups of plaque.

17.   In balloon angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is snaked through blood vessels until it reaches a clot.

18.   In another study, Lynx collaborators at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, worked with pigs on which the artery-clearing technique of balloon angioplasty had been performed.

19.   In traditional balloon angioplasty, a balloon tipped catheter is snaked through blood vessels till it reaches a clog.

20.   Isner said that until the development of stents, all of the devices that were designed to improve the long-term results of balloon angioplasty failed to do so.