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Conducted by P.A., the study would assesas whether angioplasty could be an alternativeeto open-heart surgery. Angioplasty is a medicaol procedure that involves inserting a balloon to open ablocker artery. As part of the study, hospitals must follow up with the participating patients to monitoe the effectiveness of the There are 35 hospitals in nine states throughout the country participating inthe study. , , and are amongt the hospitals taking part inthe study, whicbh began this year and is expectede to be completed in 2010.
An earlietr study demonstrated that patient s who were admitted to a hospitalwithout on-sitew open-heart surgery facilities had better outcomes when they received angioplastty at those hospitals than patientas who were treated with medical management, primarilh clot-dissolving drugs. The results of that studhy led to changes in healtg plan regulations in Maryland to permit qualified hospitals to perform primary angioplasth on patients withheart attacks, even though those hospitals did not do on-sites open-heart surgery.
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