balloon catheter angioplasty

基本解釋

One of Dr Rogers’s projects, outlined in a recent paper in Nature Materials equips a standard balloon catheter, used in angioplasty, with an array of sensors and radio circuitry.
羅傑斯博士在最近一期的《自然材料》（Nature Materials）[5]中透露了他的一個項目，即用傳感器和無線電路陣列裝備到標準的球囊導琯中（球囊導琯用於血琯手術）。

The original catheter-based treatment — balloon angioplasty — is still used hundreds of thousands of times each year in the U.S. alone.
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Each year, doctors in America perform about a million angioplasty procedures, using a balloon-tipped catheter to open clogged arteries and relieve chest pain.
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Stents are used in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into a heart artery via a catheter and used to reopen it, alleviating chest pain, allowing patients to walk and treating heart attacks.
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