[DOC] [TLE] Clearing clogged arteries in the neck - Harvard Health [PAR] Mar 18, 2016 ... For the longest time, sunscreen labels used terms like "sunblock" and .... Opening 
a blocked heart artery with a balloon and then propping it open with ... For most 
people, though, the first sign of trouble is a transient ischemic attack or a stroke. ... 
illustration of endarterectomy procedure to clear carotid artery. [DOC] [TLE] Clearing a Path to the Heart - Activity - www.teachengineering.org [PAR] Unblocking an artery with a balloon catheter and stent. ... Describe what happens 
when a blood vessel is blocked. ... The first two are types of angioplasty, or 
recreating of the canal in the blood vessel. ... engineering design process: A 
decision-making process used by engineers to make something that meets a 
need or... [DOC] [TLE] Where Balloons Fail In Clearing Arteries, New Devices May Help ... [PAR] Mar 20, 1990 ... Coronary balloon angioplasty, first accomplished in 1977 by Dr. Andreas ... The 
procedure is also widely used to open clogged vessels in the leg and kidney, but 
... stent, expands to form a supporting structure inside the vessel wall. ... ''With 
patience and more time I think some of the devices might end up... [DOC] [TLE] Widowmaker Heart Attack Explained by Cardiologist  MyHeart [PAR] As you can imagine, critical blockage of the Left Main coronary artery, is the 
mother ...... when I went to the doctor I was kind of playing the symptoms down. .... 
cath, placed a stent in his right artery, and did the balloon angioplasty on his LAD
. ... I had my first heart attack 11/31/13 which was my PLAD ( widowmaker ) that 
was... [DOC] [TLE] How long can a stent stay in the body?  The Chart - CNN.com Blogs [PAR] Dec 15, 2010 ... Stents are placed through a cardiac angiogram, a procedure in ... blockage of the 
artery is opened with the inflation of a balloon usually, precedes the placing of 
the stent. Stents were first used in the early 1980s, and some people with ... a 
blocked stent are the same as the signs of coronary artery blockage. [DOC] [TLE] Get PDF (449K) - Wiley Online Library [PAR] stents have been used; a stent may be defined as a device ... patency in the 
coronary artery (1); since then, their use ... The procedure for deployment of a 
stent in the human ... panding a balloon onto which the stent has been crimped ... 
sis to occur over time. 3. .... first patient treated by Gruentzig in 1977 remained 
free of. [DOC] [TLE] Reversing Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Coronary Artery Disease ... [PAR] Proper diet for the prevention and reverse of coronary artery disease, reduce ... 
The plaque that restricts the heart artery is a ticking time bomb because of the .... 
He was diagnosed with diabetes during his first treatment in the hospital for his ... 
These measurements are used to calculate the low-density lipoprotein (LDL)... [DOC] [TLE] Human Physiology/The cardiovascular system - Wikibooks, open ... [PAR] 8.1 How To Read An ECG; 8.2 Cardiac Muscle Contraction; 8.3 Blood Pressure 
... Many believe that the heart is the first organ to become functional. ... The blood 
to the myocardium is supplied by the coronary arteries. .... the lungs or the 
pulmonary circulation at the same time that the left pump pumps blood to the rest 
of the... [DOC] [TLE] Knowledge Centre - Tagore Hospital & Heart Care Centre ... [PAR] Latest developments in the field of echocardiography include real time 3-D 
imaging, ... One way to unblock (open up the lumen) of a coronary artery (or other 
blood vessel) is ... transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), which was first 
performed in 1977. ... Catheters with a balloon on the tip are used in the 
procedure called... [DOC] [TLE] A Maverick's Lonely Path in Cardiology (Essay 28) | Dr. Bernard ... [PAR] Mar 10, 2012 ... When a coronary vessel is narrowed or blocked, the heart has a ... used a vein 
graft to bypass an obstructed coronary vessel. ... coronary artery angioplasty

Question: In 1977 the balloon type of this procedure was used for the first time to unblock clogged heart arteries
Answer: angioplasty