Dr. Nishith Chandra
Angioplasty is a procedure in which your doctor inserts a balloon catheter into a blocked artery to unblock the artery. The blocked artery may be an artery in your arm, leg, or neck. If the blocked artery is a blood vessel that supplies blood to the heart, the procedure is called coronary angioplasty, or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). A […]
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Indians around the globe have the highest rates of premature coronary artery disease (CAD), with clinical manifestations occurring about 10 years earlier than in other populations. Incidence and mortality rates for CAD are 50−300% higher among overseas Indians compared with compatriots. India has seen a rapid transition in its disease burden (number of cases/lakh) over the past couple of decades. […]
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