percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
- percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
percutaneous transluminal angioplasty n a surgical procedure used to enlarge the lumen of a partly occluded blood vessel (as one with atherosclerotic plaques on the walls) by passing a balloon catheter through the skin, into the vessel, and through the vessel to the site of the lesion where the tip of the catheter is inflated to expand the lumen of the vessel
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a type of balloon angioplasty in which the catheter is inserted through the skin and through the lumen of the vessel to the site of narrowing.
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