What Is The Success Rate Of Angioplasty?

Angioplasty with Stent Placement

Coronary Angioplasty is a medical term to solve the condition of narrowed coronary arteries of the heart. Either they have been blocked by the plaque deposition or some kind of genetic mutation has been developed.  Gradually, the success rate of coronary bypass surgery is also increasing. In 2007, it has been reported that almost over lakhs of people or patients in America are successfully living post surgical life. The survival rates in coronary artery bypass surgery and angioplasty are similar.

Heart Treatment Procedures

In angioplasty, the cardiologists or best surgeons for coronary angioplasty insert a balloon-like device into the coronary arteries and inflate the balloon to widen the artery which makes an adequate space for blood to travel to and fro. A stent, which is a hard mesh like tube can also be inserted to keep the vessel open. There are also some stents which are available with drugs coating to help prevent the artery from clogging up. 

The surgical rate is really high in angioplasty with live 90.7% of the bypass patients and 89.7% of the angioplasty patients. Nowadays, repeat coronary angioplasty has also become a standard practice approach. There are many patients who appear for their second-time angioplasty and mostly are of age 58 or above. The percentage of successful lives of those patients is 96.8% in which 0.9% patients got myocardial infarction yet no procedural deaths. Those patients get a regular follow up with upto 40-41 months. There are also some patients who go for third time coronary bypass surgery, in which, 88% of the people experienced functional improvement with no loss of life. The 5-year cardiac survival rate is 96.8% and the rate of freedom from cardiac death and myocardial infarction is 95.6%. With tools, the technology is also advancing a lot and thus most of the surgeries show positive after signs.