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InVision Guide to a Healthy Heart

January 24, 2006 Categories: For patients Posted by admin

An interactive website that showcases the marvel of the cardiovascular system, why and how medical problems arise, and treatment and lifestyle options that promote a heart health.

Healthyheart

http://www.invisionguide.com

Multimedia Presentations about Heart Health

January 18, 2006 Categories: For patients Posted by admin

Some of multimedia movies about health procedures such as: stent implantation, cardiac chateterization, angioplasty, thrombolytics “Clot Buster”, atherectomy, coronary artery bypass surgery.

Video_angioplasty

Page on the Indiana Heart Hospital

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty 3D animation

January 16, 2006 Categories: For patients Posted by admin

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) - often abbreviated to angioplasty - is a procedure to re-open a narrowed coronary artery. Watch how this procedure opens arteries.

Coronary_angioplasty

High quality PTCA procedure 3D animation

Understanding balloon angioplasty

Categories: For patients Posted by admin

One more explain for patients what is angioplasty.

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Angioplasty and Cardiac Revascularization Statistics

January 1, 2006 Categories: For patients Posted by admin

According to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics – 2005 Update:

1,204,000 angioplasties were done in the United States in 2002. Of these 657,000 were percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasties (PTCAs).
802,000 men and 402,000 women had angioplasties.
515,000 cardiac revascularizations (also known as coronary artery bypass graft or CABG operations) were done in the United States in 2001.
CABG was performed on 373,000 men and 142,000 women.

via American Heart Association