Summary
You had angioplasty (ballooning) of a peripheral artery, a blood vessel that supplies blood to your legs or arms. You may have also had a stent placed. These procedures were done to open a narrowed or blocked peripheral artery.
Your surgeon inserted a catheter (flexible tube) into your blocked artery through a tiny hole in your groin. Your surgeon used x-rays to guide the catheter up to the area of the blockage. Then your surgeon passed a guide wire through the catheter to the blockage. A balloon catheter was pushed over the guide wire and into the blockage. The balloon on the end was blown up. This opened the blocked vessel and restored proper blood flow to your heart. A stent is usually placed to prevent the vessel from collapsing again.
Relevance
This video discusses many topics that we have learned recently in class. This includes the discussion about blood vessels, the heart, blood, arteries, and veins. More specifically, the article talks about peripheral and coronary arteries and how blood clots can form within them. Also, the femoral artery plays a key role when putting a stent into a human's artery. The arterial system, blockage, and aorta are terms mentioned in this video as well. All of these terms I have mentioned have been learned about in the last few weeks or so in biology class.
Information
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7nghr9TpSU
Date Published: April 1, 2013
Posted by: nucleusanimation
How is the stent positioned so that it doesn't itself impede blood flow or break off and block the artery even more?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of pathologies would lead to a blockage in the artery like this?
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