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Angioplasty no better than drugs, study says.
Byline: Stephen Smith and Liz Kowalczyk
Mar. 27--A large and long-awaited study finds that angioplasty works no better than medication at preventing heart attacks or death, a finding that could slow the growth of one of medicine's most common cardiac interventions.
The research comes on the heels of a growing debate over whether some patients are getting unnecessary angioplasty, a procedure that involves using a tiny balloon and metal scaffolds called stents to prop open clogged arteries.
Angioplasty is recommended for those with fully blocked arteries or who have had a heart attack. But the new study, presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting in New Orleans yesterday, should give doctors and their patients with partially obstructed arteries the confidence to put off angioplasty or to skip surgery altogether, according to the researchers.
"The results are very striking," said Dr. Steven Nissen , president of the American College of Cardiology, who was not involved in the study. "This is…
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