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If a catheter-based intervention is possible, it can be preformed in the cath lab while you are there. The catheter-based interventions include:
Percutaneous Transluminal
Coronary Angioplasty
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• Stent Placement

• Rotational Atherectomy
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Text provided by Andrew Michaels, M.D., Tony Chou, M.D., and Laura Kee, R.N., Ph.D.,
Division of Cardiology, University of California San Francisco
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