Elective coronary angioplasty gives patients the chance to address blocked arteries and possibly prevent a heart attack from ever occurring.
Last October, on one of her walks with her dog, Emmett, 76-year-old Eileen Aviss felt tightness in her chest.
With a sense of worry and dread, Aviss made an appointment with her doctor at Capital Health, Shaismy Kudakachira, DO, who thought it sounded serious enough to send her to a cardiologist for a series of tests. That's when doctors could see three blocked arteries. Without intervention, they told Aviss, she could have a heart attack.
First introduced in 1974, balloon angioplasty with stenting has become the most frequently used treatment in cardiac emergencies of the heart. However, to help patients avoid cardiac emergencies, Capital Health endeavored to offer elective coronary angioplasty for more than a decade. Despite those astronomical numbers, enormous effort, resources, and research go into the constant fine-tuning of tools and treatments each year. Angioplasty is safer than it's ever been, which is why Capital Health doctors can perform it on an outpatient basis, says Dr. Desai.
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