Resources

• American Heart Association
• Angioplasty (Cleveland Clinic)
• Angioplasty (National Women's Health Information Center)
• Angioplasty (National Library of Medicine)
• Angioplasty and Cardiac Revascularization Treatments and Statistics (American Heart Association)
• Angioplasty Safer, Need for Emergency Surgery Afterward Plunges (American Heart Association)
• Angioplasty Versus Bypass Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
• Angioplasty, Coronary (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Angioplasty, Laser (American Heart Association)
• Angioplasty, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary (PTCA) (American Heart Association)
• Benefits of Coronary Stents (American College of Physicians)
• Brain Angioplasty in Awake Patients May Reduce Complications (American Heart Association)
• Cardiac Angioplasty Device (Food and Drug Administration) - Requires Macromedia Flash Player to view animations
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Angioplasty (National Institutes of Health)
• Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty [Interactive Tutorial] (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
• Coronary Angioplasty: Opening Clogged Arteries (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - requires RealPlayer plug-in to view video
• Coronary Artery Disease (National Women's Health Information Center)
• Coronary Interventions Handout (Cleveland Clinic)
• Enzyme Level Linked to Death after Angioplasty (American Heart Association)
• FDA Advises Physicians of Adverse Events Associated with Cordis Cypher Coronary Stents (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• Glossary of Heart Surgery Terms (Society of Thoracic Surgeons)
• Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors (Cleveland Clinic)
• Heart Attack: Special Procedures (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
• Homocysteine-Lowering Therapy Reduces Risk of Major Adverse Events after Coronary Procedure (American Medical Association)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Normal Heart and How It Works (American Heart Association)
• Persistent Smokers Skip Full Benefit of Angioplasty (American Heart Association)
• Surgery Better Than Drugs for Serious Lack of Blood Flow to the Heart (American Heart Association)
• Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medication after Coronary Procedures Reduces the Risk of Subsequent Major Cardiac Events (American Medical Association)