Angioplasty

An angioplasty is a minimally invasive procedure to open up blocked or narrowed blood vessels, which often is a symptom of peripheral arterial disease or other conditions.

Our Interventional Radiologists insert a catheter through a pinhole puncture in the skin. With X-Ray guidance, the catheter is guided to the location of the occlusion. Then either a balloon or drug coated balloon can be inflated to open up the vessel. A stent, which is a small metal tube, can also be put at the site of the blockage to hold the vessel open.

There are many benefits to this procedure, some of which being that there is usually no need for an overnight hospital stay, usually no general anesthesia and short recovery times.