Life-saving Surgery For Heart Patients Increases By More Than A Third, USA
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:00 AM EST
... Use of a surgical procedure to open plaque-narrowed or blocked arteries in hospital patients - called percutaneous coronary angioplasty, or PTCA -- increased from 581,000 to 791,000 between 1997 and 2004, according to HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [click link for full article] ...
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