Adjective complement with noun phrase

• undergo: He was taken by ambulance to The London Chest Hospital where he underwent an emergency angioplasty.

• follow: Accelerated atherosclerosis may occur following balloon angioplasty, placement of an arterial stent, and following transplantation.

• use: To many interventional cardiologists, this evidence will not be strong enough to change their practice of using rescue angioplasty in selected cases only.

Modifies a noun

• procedure: During an angioplasty procedure, a doctor inserts a catheter with a deflated balloon at its tip into the blockage in the artery.

• service: Waiting times for angioplasty services are also now below three months.

• catheter: It is attached to the end of a very fine catheter, known as the angioplasty catheter.

• balloon: It is delivered squashed down small, and can be dilated to its maximum diameter with an angioplasty balloon.

• operation: Over 1,400 heart bypass operations and over 3,500 angioplasty operations were performed at the Trust last year.

• patient: They found that 97 per cent of emergency angioplasty patients survived their heart attack.

Used with adjective complement

• balloon: Bandolier 92 reported a meta-analysis of trials looking at a comparison of stents versus balloon angioplasty indicating stents to be better.

• undergo: Researchers looked for a condition known as angiographic restenosis, which is the narrowing or closing of an artery that has undergone angioplasty.

• call: The stent is inserted during a procedure called angioplasty.

• follow: We see patients admitted with Acute Coronary Syndrome, and following angioplasty / stent or cardiac surgery.

• include: He made it to the new hospital where they did many procedures on him, including angioplasty.

• rescue: We still have no idea whether or not rescue angioplasty reduces mortality.

Preposition: after

• therapy: Rescue angioplasty after failed thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.

Infinitive complement

• clear: Once at the Center, suitable patients undergo a minimally invasive procedure called an angioplasty to clear the blockage and stop the heart attack.

Preposition: in

• patient: Long-term survival benefits of coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease.

• case: To many interventional cardiologists, this evidence will not be strong enough to change their practice of using rescue angioplasty in selected cases only.