Arterial Interventions

Stenting

The deployment of a stent across a narrowed or occluded segment of an artery to improve distal blood flow.

The use of a mechanical instrument to remove cholesterol plaques on the walls of arteries that narrow or occlude them.

The use of small balloons mounted on the ends of catheters to dilate or widen narrowed arteries in order to improve distal blood flow.

The use of clot-dissolving drugs to restore blood flow through an occluded artery.