If your angiography reveals Coronary Artery Disease (narrowing or blockages in the arteries that restrict blood flow to the heart), your cardiologist may then perform a Non-Surgical Coronary Intervention to remove the obstruction from the arteries and replenish blood flow to the heart.

Angioplasty opens blocked arteries and restores normal blood flow to your heart muscle. It is not a major surgery. It is done by inflating a tiny balloon at the site of the block. In many patients a collapsed wire mesh tube called a stent is deployed at the site of narrowing. This acts as a scaffolding to help prevent it from renarrowing after the angioplasty.

A coronary stent is an expandable mesh tube that is placed in an artery to maintain the free flow of blood through the vessel following an angioplasty. The mesh-like tube is inserted (while collapsed) into the artery by mounting it onto a balloon-tipped catheter. Once it is positioned in the area where the plaque was compressed or removed, the balloon is inflated, which then expands it against the coronary artery walls.