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 Coronary dilatation The coronary performed during the assessment of your heart disease has allowed the fat deposits at fault to be localised. At the end of this assessment a coronary dilatation seems to be the best solution for your case. Principles or the coronary dilatation Angioplasty (the reparing of a vessel) is a relatirely old therapeutical method as the 1st case was performed in 1977 by a Swiss Cardiologist A. GRUNTZIG. This technic aims to enlarge the vessel by pushing out the atheromateous deposit which impeech blood circulation (with the help of a balloon).
As with a coronarography it's necessary to puncture an artery in order to introduce a catheter into the blood flow. This catheter in placed at the bottom (ostium) of the coronary artery to be treated. There are 3 ways in which the catheter can be introduced :
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