Angioplasty is a non-surgery procedure, used to open blocked heart arteries. ... Angioplasty is only necessary to have, if you have coronary artery disease. ... Angioplasty is a procedure that is used for blocked arteries. ... In this procedure, a catheter with a balloon tip is guided in the artery. ... "More than 350,000 patients received transluminal coronary angioplasty in 1991. ...

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Coronary artery disease is the number one cause of death in the world. ... Thus, most severe cases of coronary artery disease are untreatable because of the inability to heal a severely degenerated heart. ... If LIUS were to sustain the growth of these cardiac scaffolds, more extreme cases of coronary artery disease will be much easier to treat due to the ability to regenerate damaged cardiac tissues. ...

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Everyone knows the expression "cream rises to the top." This is generally true, except for non-dairy creamer, in which case the hydrogenated soybean oil, corn syrup solids, and half dozen additives rise. When non-dairy creamer rises to the top, it forms a convenient viscous film closely resembling l...

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