angioplasty


Ministers want primary angioplasty to be more widely available for heart attack patients, but what does it involve?

Hundreds of lives will be saved every year with a "gold standard" treatment for heart attacks across England, say ministers.

Availability of the gold standard treatment for heart attack varies across England and Wales, a report says.

Doctors say delivering specialist treatments to heart attack patients directly, not taking them to A&E, could save lives.

Patients who suffer a heart attack and are taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary will be treated with immediate angioplasty following a successful pilot scheme.

Heart attack patients are to get vital treatment quicker under a system linking ambulance crews and doctors.

Doctors launch a trial to test whether heart attacks can be treated using a patient's own stem cells.

An experienced runner who collapsed with a heart attack during the London Marathon is already back at work thanks to a state-of-the-art treatment.

Why a former athlete is giving his support to a new 24-hour heart attack centre.

Commons Speaker Michael Martin has undergone an angioplasty procedure, his office confirms.

A new catheter laboratory means 400 extra life-saving angioplasty procedures can be performed in the county each year.

Specialist surgery to unblock heart patients' arteries may soon be introduced at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Heart patients who have diabetes in the South West are set to benefit from a new angioplasty treatment.

US heart specialists are avoiding potentially risky procedures because they could affect their mortality rates, research suggests.

A team of cardiologists from Plymouth broadcast live heart operations to a conference in Pakistan on Saturday.

A service where heart attack patients are sent for treatment within the hour has reduced death-rates five-fold, doctors say.

A tipple or two can aid recovery from heart surgery, research suggests.

Patrick Stewart has an angioplasty to improve blood flow. Plus news in brief on Spike Lee and Motley Crue.

Singer David Bowie recovers at home after surgery in Germany for a blocked artery.

Exposure to low levels of carbon monoxide could reduce the risk of new episodes of heart disease for at-risk patients, research suggests.

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