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Study examines treatment of blockages in patients suffering severe heart attacks

Severe heart attacks are often treated with nonsurgical procedures that open narrowed or blocked arteries of the heart using stents (percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI). A study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit explores the use of a device positioned just beyond the blockage to catch debris and prevent them from lodging in another downstream blood vessel during PCI to treat patients who suffer from a major heart attack.

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