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He would undergo multiple surgeries, including a quadruple bypass, two angioplasties, installation of a heart pump and — in 2012 — a transplant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
After spending years as UW Health’s chief of cardiology, replacing heart valves and doing angioplasties to clear blocked arteries, Wolff has undergone a major procedure himself: a heart-kidney transplant.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
Of course, as Baier notes, the treatment choices were limited at the time—Snyder could not have performed the dramatic artery-opening bypasses, angioplasties, and stents of today even if he had wanted to.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2017
Federal regulators had accused the doctors and the hospital of performing unnecessary procedures known as angioplasties, in which a clogged blood vessel is opened.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2013
More than 54,000 angioplasties, which are performed through small tubes and are not surgical procedures, were performed in New York from 2008 through 2010.
From US News ● Oct. 18, 2012
