Angioplasty For Treating P.A.D.
Dr. Brian Schiro, Interventional Radiologist at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, explains angioplasty is for patients that fail conservative treatment and still have claudication or critical limb ischemia and have not improved on medical treatment.
According to him, angioplasty consists on a balloon inserted into the blood vessels and by inflating the balloon this would cause the plaque to expand and to get crushed and pushed inside the wall of the blood vessel. So, this opens up the flow channel and allows blood to flow back through the blood vessel.
