Самое полезное медицинское сообщество. Narrowing of the carotid arteries, which are in your neck and supply blood to the head and neck, may be treated with the angioplasty. A thin flexible tube, called a balloon catheter, is inserted into the narrowed or the blocked artery. A balloon at the tip of the catheter is inflated, which stretches the narrowed artery. The balloon is deflated and withdrawn from the catheter. Sometimes a metal devise called the stent is left in the artery to help
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