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Coronary Angioplasty Coronary angioplasty, or percutaneous coronary intervention, is a procedure to widen a narrowed or blocked blood vessel of the heart (coronary artery). The artery is usually blocked by cholesterol build-up, or plaque, in the lining of the artery walls. When a vessel in the heart becomes partially or fully blocked, there is less […]