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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cornary stent | supportive scaffold device placed in coronary artery used to prevent closure of artery after angioplasty or atherectomy |
| embolectomy | surgical removal of an embolus clot usually in balloon catheter inflating the balloon beyond the clot |
| PTCA or balloon angioplasty | procedure in which a balloon is advanced into coronary artery to the area where plaque has formed |
| thrombolytic therapy | injection of meds either intravenously or intra arterially to dissolve blood clots used for acute MI |
| Bone marrow aspiration | procedure to obtain a sample of liquid portion of bone marrow from ilium for study |
| Bone marrow biopsy | solid portion of the bone marrow |
| Procedure in which the abnormal cells that trigger abnormal heart rhythms are destroyed by using a device that heats and freezes the cells | catheter albation |
| bone marrow transplant | infusion of healthy bone marrow cells from matched donor into a patient with Beverly diseases or damaged bone marrow |