Claim: Treatments for peripheral artery disease include angioplasty to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins.
Evidence: Procedures used to treat the disease include bypass grafting , angioplasty , and atherectomy.
Angioplasty , also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty -LRB- PTA -RRB- , is a minimally invasive , endovascular procedure to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins , typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.