Sentence examples for tiny balloons from inspiring English sources

Pikul and Shepherd used tiny balloons.

Interventional cardiology had been developing for less than a decade, using tiny balloons to squash blockages against artery walls.

The senior physician favored angioplasty, where tiny balloons and coils of wire called stents are used to open blocked vessels.

When I watch the dough expand I see it as a lively white cushion, growing bigger and bigger, blowing up very slowly with thousands of tiny balloons inside.

Close to one million Americans a year receive stent implants after angioplasty to create pathways through severe blockages in coronary arteries by inflating tiny balloons in them.

Then they take him to a hospital that doesn't perform angioplasty, the procedure that uses tiny balloons and coils of wire called stents to open blockages in the arteries that feed the heart.

The lungs contain some 500 million tiny, balloon-like structures called alveoli, which all together have the surface area of a tennis court.

The preferred remedy is angioplasty, in which doctors snake a tube up a blood vessel in the groin to the blockage and inflate a tiny balloon.

Another way to open a blocked artery is to thread a tiny balloon into the blood vessel and inflate it, pushing the blockage against the artery wall, and then holding the artery open with a stent, a tiny metal cage.

Bypass surgery or angioplasty -- opening arteries by pushing plaque back with a tiny balloon and then, often, holding it there with a stent -- can open up a narrowed artery before it closes completely.

Not only will that be better for patients, he said, but it will also benefit surgeons, who are seeing more patients decline bypass in favor of angioplasty, a procedure often performed by cardiologists rather than surgeons, in which a tiny balloon is inflated to open a clogged artery by squashing the deposits that block it.